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TYLER,    W  I  8  K    &    A  L  I;  E  O  K  E  . 
ENQUIRER     BOOK      AM)     JOB     OFFICE 


LAWS 


OF    THE 


PROVISIONAL   CONGRESS 


OF    THE 


CONFEDERATE  STATES 


IN  RELATION  TO  THE 


WAR  DEPARTMENT 


1861. 


RICHMOND. 

TYLER,    WISE    k    ALLEGRE. 
ENQUIRE     BOOK     AND     JOB     OFFICE 

1861. 


ACTS  AND  RESOLUTIONS. 


A  RESOLUTION 

In  relation  to  the  occupation  of  the  Forts  and  Arsenals,  &c. 

Resolved  by  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America, 
That  this  Government  takes  under  its  charge  the  questions 
and  difficulties  now  existing  between  the  several  States  of 
this  Confederacy,  and  the  Government  of  the  United  States 
of  America,  relating  to  the  ocaupation  of  forts,  arsenals, 
navy  yards,  and  other  public  establishments ;  and  that  the 
President  of  the  Congress  be  directed  to  communicate  this 
resolution  to  the  several  States  of  this  Confederacy  through 
the  respective  Governors  thereof. 

Adopted,  February  12,  1861. 


AN  ACT 
To  establish  the  War  Department. 

Section  1 .  T/ie  Congress  of  tlie  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  an  Executive  Department  be  and  the 
same  is  hereby  established,  under  the  name  of  the  War  De- 
partment, the  chief  officer  of  which  shall  be  called  the  Secre- 
tary of  War. 

Sec  2.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  said  Secretary  shall, 
under  the  direction  and  control  of  the  President,  have 
charge  of  all  matters  and  things  connected  with  the  army, 
and  with  the  Indian  tribes  within  the  limits  of  the  Confede- 
racy, and  shall  perform  such  duties  appertaining  to  the  army, 
and  to  said  Indian  tribes,  as  may  from  time  to  time  be  as- 
signed to  him  by  the  President. 

Sec  3.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Secretary  of 


said  Department  is  hereby  authorized  to  appoint  a  chief 
clerk  thereof,  and  u  many  interior  clerks  u  may  be  found 
necessary,  and  may  be  authorized  by  law. 

Approved,  February  21,  1861. 


AN   ACT 

For  the  Establishment  and  Organization  of  a  General  Staff 
for  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact.  That  from  and  after  the  passing  of  this  act, 
the  General  Staff  of  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States 
shall  consisl  of  an  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  Depart- 
ment, Quartermaster  General's  Department,  Subsistence  De- 
partment, and  the  Medical  Department. 

Sec.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Adjutant  and  In- 
spector General's  Department  shall  consist  of  one  Adjutant 
and  Inspector  General  with  the  rank  of  Colonel,  four  As- 
sistant Adjutants  General  with  the  rank  of  Major,  and  four 
Assistant  Adjutants  General  with  the  rank  of  Captain. 

Sec  3.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Quartermaster 
General's  Department  shall  consist  of  one  Quartermaster 
General  with  the  rank  of  Colonel,  six  Quartermasters  with  the 
rank  of  Major,  and  as  many  Assistant  Quartermasters  as 
may  from  time  to  time  be  required  by  the  service  may  be 
detailed  by  the  War  Department  from  the  subalterns  of  the 
line,  who,  in  addition  to  their  pay  in  the  line,  shall  receive 
twenty  dollars  per  month  while  engaged  in  that  service. 
The  Quartermasters  herein  provided  for  shall  also  discharge 
the  duties  of  paymasters,  under  such  regulations  as  may  be 
prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  War. 

Sec.  I.  Hi  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Commissary  ( Jene- 
ral's  Department  shall  consist  of  one  Commissary  General 

with  the  rank  of  Colonel,  four  Commissaries  with  the  rank  of 
Captain;  and  as  many  Assistant  Commissaries  as  may  from 
time  to  time  be  required  by  the  service  may  be  detailed  by 
the  War  Department  from  the  subalterns  of  the  line,  who,  in 
addition  to  their  pay  in  the  line,  shall  receive  twenty  dollars 
per  month  while  engaged  in  that  service.  The  Assistant  Quar- 
termasters and  Assistant  Commissaries  shall  be  subject  to 
duties  in  both  Departments  at  the  same  time,  but  shall  not 
receive  the  additional  compensation  but  in  one  department. 


Sec.  5.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Medical  Depart- 
ment shall  consist  of  one  Surgeon  General  with  rank  of 
Colonel,  four  Surgeons  with  the  rank  of  Major,  and  six  As- 
sistant Surgeons  with  the  rank  of  Captain ;  and  as  many 
Assistant  Surgeons  as  the  service  may  require  may  he  em- 
ployed by  the  Department  of  War,  and  receive  the  pay  of 
Assistant  Surgeons. 

Sec  6.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  officers  of  the  Ad- 
jutant General's,  Quartermaster  General's  and  Commissary 
General's  Department,  though  eligible  to  command,  accord- 
ing to  the  rank  they  hold  in  the  army  of  the  Confederate  States 
of  America,  shall  not  assume  command  of  troops,  unless  put 
on  duty  under  orders  which  specially  so  direct  by  authority 
of  the  President.  The  officers  of  the  Medical  Department 
shall  not  exercise  command  except  in  their  own  Department. 

Sec  7.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Staff  Officers  here- 
in provided  for,  shall  be  appointed  by  the  President,  by  and 
with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Congress,  and  shall  re- 
ceive such  pay  and  allowances  as  shall  be  hereafter  established 
by  law. 

Approved,  February  26,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

To  raise  Provisional  Forces  for  the  Confederate  States  of 
America,  and  for  other  purposes. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  to  enable  the  Government  of  the  Confe- 
derate States  to  maintain  its  jurisdiction  over  all  questions  of 
peace  and  war,  and  to  provide  for  the  public  defence,  the 
President  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  and  directed  to  as- 
sume control  of  all  military  operations  in  every  State,  having 
reference  to  or  connection  with  questions  between  said  States, 
or  any  of  them,  and  powers  foreign  to  them. 

Sec  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  President  ie 
hereby  authorized  to  receive  from  the  several  States  the 
arms  and  munitions  of  war  which  have  been  acquired  from 
the  United  States,  and  which  are  now  in  the  forts,  arsenals 
and  navy  yards  of  the  the  said  States',  and  all  other  arms 
and  munitions  which  they  may  desire  to  turn  over  and  make 
chargeable  to  this  Government. 


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Sec.  3.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  President  be  au- 
thorized to  receive  into  the  service  of  this  Government  such 
forces  now  in  the  service  of  said  States  as  may  be  tendered, 
or  who  may  volunteer,  by  consent  of  their  State,  in  sueh 
numbers  as  lie  may  require,  for  any  time  not  less  than  twelve 
months,  unless  sooner  discharged. 

Sec  4.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  such  forces  may  be  re- 
ceived with  their  officers,  by  companies,  battalions  or  regi- 
ments, and  when  so  received  shall  form  a  part  of  the  Provi- 
sional Army  of  the  Confederate  States,  according  to  the 
terms  of  their  enlistment ;  and  the  President  shall  appoint, 
by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  Congress,  such  gene- 
ral officer  or  officers  for  said  forces  as  may  be  necessary  for 
the  service. 

Sec  5.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  said  forces,  when  re- 
ceived into  the  service  of  this  Government,  shall  have  the 
same  pay  and  allowances  as  may  he  provided  by  law  for  vol- 
unteers entering  the  service,  or  for  the  army  of  the  Confede- 
rate States,  and  shall  be  subject  to  the  same  rules  and  gov- 
ernment. 

Approved,  February  28,  1861. 


AN  ACT 
To  provide  for  the  Public  Defence. 

Section  1.  T/ie  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Aim- 
rica  do  crtact,  That  in  order  to  provide  speedily  forces  to 
repel  invasion,  maintain  the  rightful  possession  of  the  Con- 
federate States  of  America  in  every  portion  of  territory  be- 
longing to  each  State,  and  to  secure  the  public  tranquility 
and  independence  against  threatened  assault,  the  President 
be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  t"  employ  the  militia,  military 
and  naval  forces  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  and 
to  ask  for  and  accept  the  services  of  any  number  of  volun- 
teers, not  exceeding  one  hundred  thousand,  who  may  offer 
their  services,  either  as  cavalry,  mounted  riflemen,  artillery 
or  infantry,  in  such  proportion  of  these  several  arms  as  he 
may  deem  expedient,  to  serve  for  twelve  months  after  they 
shall  be  mustered  into  service,  unless  sooner  discharged. 

Sic.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  militia,  when 
called  into  service  by  virtue  of  this  act  or  any  oilier  act,  if 
in  the  opinion  of  the  President  the  public  interest  requires, 


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may  be  compelled  to  serve  for  a  term  not  exceeding  six 
months  after  they  shall  be  mustered  into  service,  unless 
sooner  discharged. 

Sec.  3.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  said  volunteers 
shall  furnish  their  own  clothes,  and,  if  mounted  men,  their 
own  horses  and  horse  equipments ;  and  when  mustered  into 
service,  shall  be  armed  by  the  States  from  which  they  come, 
or  by  the  Confederate  States  of  America. 

Sec  4.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  said  volunteers 
shall  when  called  into  actual  service,  and  while  remaining 
therein,  be  subject  to  the  rules  and  articles  of  war,  and  in- 
stead of  clothing,  every  non-commissioned  officer  and  private 
in  any  company  shall  be  entitled,  when  called  into  actual 
service,  to  money  in  a  sum  equal  to  the  cost  of  clothing  of  a 
non-commissioned  officer  or  private  in  the  regular  army  of 
the  Confederate  States  of  America. 

Sec  5.  And  be  it  fur  titer  enacted,  That  the  said  volunteers 
so  offering  their  services  may  be  accepted  by  the  President 
in  companies,  squadrons,  battalions  and  regiments,  whose 
officers  shall  be  appointed  in  the  manner  prescribed  by  law 
in  the  several  States  to  which  they  shall  respectively  belong ; 
but  when  inspected,  mustered,  and  received  into  the  service 
of  the  Confederate  States,  said  troops  shall  be  regarded  in 
all  respects  as  a  part  of  the  army  of  said  Confederate  States, 
according  to  the  terms  of  their  respective  enlistments. 

Sec  6.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  President  is 
hereby  authorized  to  organize  companies  so  tendering  their 
services  into  battalions  or  squadron's,  battalions  or  squadrons 
into  regiments,  regiments  into  brigades,  and  brigades  into 
divisions,  whenever  in  his  judgment  such  organization  may 
be  expedient ;  and  whenever  brigades  or  divisions  shall  be 
organized,  the  President  shall  appoint  the  commanding  officers 
for  such  brigades  and  divisions,  subject  to  the  confirmation 
of  Congress,  who  shall  hold  their  offices  only  while  such 
brigades  and  divisions  are  in  service;  and  the  President 
shall,  if  necessary,  apportion  the  staff  and  general  officers 
among  the  respective  States  from  which  the  volunteers  shall 
tender  their  services,  as  he  may  deem  proper. 

Sec  7.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  whenever  the 
militia  or  volunteers  are  called  and  received  into  the  service 
of  the  Confederate  States,  under  the  provisions  of  this  act, 
they  shall  have  the  same  organization,  and  shall  have  the 
same  pay  and  allowances  as  may  be  provided  for  the  regular 
army ;  and  all  mounted  non-commissioned  officers,  privates, 


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musicians  and  artificers,  shall  be  allowed  forty  cents  per  day 
for  the  use  and  risk  of  their  horses;  and  if  any  volunteer 
shall  not  keep  himself  provided  with  a  serviceable  horse, 
such  volunteer  shall  serve  on  foot.  For  horses  killed  in  ac- 
tion, volunteers  shall  be  allowed  compensation  according  to 
their  appraised  value  at  the  date  of  muster  into  service. 

Sec.  8.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  Thai  the  field  and  staff 
officers  of  a  separate  battalion  of  volunteers  .-hall  be  one 
Lieutenant  Colonel  or  Major,  one  Adjutant  with  the  rank  of 
Lieutenant,  one  Sergeanl  Major,  one  Quartermaster  Sergeant, 
and  a  chief  Bugler  or  principal  Musician,  according  to  corps; 
and  that  each  company  shall  he  entitled  to  an  additional  2nd 
Lieutenant;  and  that  the  President  may  limit  the  privates  in 
any  volunteer  company,  according  to  his  discretion,  at  from 
sixty-four  to  one  hundred. 

Sec.  9.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  when  volunteer? 
or  militia  are  called  into  the  service  of  the  Con  federate 
States  in  such  numbers  that  the  officers  of  the  Quartermas- 
ter, Commissary,  and  Medical  Departments,  which  may  be 
authorized  by  law  for  the  regular  service,  are  not  sufficient 
to  provide  for  the  supplying,  quartering,  transporting,  and 
furnishing  them  with  the  requisite  medical  attendance,  it 
shall  be  lawful  for  the  President  to  appoint,  with  the  advice 
and  consent  of  the  Congress,  as  many  additional  officers  of 
said  Departments  as  the  service  may  require,  not  exceeding 
one  Commissary  and  one  Quartermaster  for  each  brigade, 
with  the  rank  of  Major,  and  one  Assistant  Quartermaster 
with  the  rank  of  Captain,  and  one  Assistant  Commissary 
with  the  raid;  of  Captain,  one  Surgeon  and  one  Assistant 
Surgeon  for  each  regiment;  the  said  Quartermasters  and 
Commissaries,  Assistant  Quartermasters  and  Commissaries, 
to  give  bonds  with  good  sureties  for  the  faithful  perform- 
ance of  their  duties,  the  said  officers  to.  be  allowed  the  same 
pay  and  emoluments  as  shall  be  allowed  to  officers  of  the 
same  grade  in  the  regular  service,  and  to  be  subject  to  the 
rules  and  articles  of  war,  and  to  continue  in  service  only  so 
long  as  their  services  may  be  required  in  connection  with 
the  militia  or  volunteers. 

Sec  10.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  President  be 
and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  purchase  or  charter,  arm. 
equip  and  man  such  merchant  vessels  and  steamships  or 
boats  as  may  be  found  fit  or  easily  converted  into  armed  ves- 
sels, and  in  such  number  as  he  may  deem  necessary  for  .the 


protection  of  the  seaboard  and  the  general  defence  of  the 
country. 

Approved,  March  6,  1861. 


AN  ACT. 

For  the  establishment  and  organization  of  the  Army  of  the 
Confederate  States  of  America. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  from  and  after  the  passage  of  this  act  the 
military  establishment  of  the  Confederate  States  shall  be  com- 
posed of  one  corps  of  engineers,  one  corps  of  artillery,  six 
regiments  of  infantry,  one  regiment  of  cavalry,  and  of  the 
staff  departments  already  established  by  law. 

Sec.  2.  The  corps  of  engineers  shall  consist  of  one  Colonel, 
four  Majors,  five  Captains,  and  one  company  of  sappers, 
miners  and  pontoniers,  which  shall  consist  of  ten  sergeants  or 
master  workmen,  ten  corporals  or  overseers,  two  musicians, 
and  thirty-nine  privates  of  the  first  class,  or  artificers,  and 
thirty-nine  privates  of  the  second  class,  or  laborers,  makinc 
in  all  one  hundred. 

Sec  3.  The  said  company  shall  be  officered  by  one  Cap- 
tain of  the  corps  of  engineers,  and  as  many  Lieutenants,  to 
be  selected  by  the  President  from  the  line  of  the  army,  as 
he  may  deem  necessary  for  the  service,  and  shall  be  instruct- 
ed in  and  perform  all  the  duties  of  sappers,  miners  and  pon- 
toniers, and  shall,  moreover,  under  the  orders  of  the  chief  of 
engineers,  be  liable  to  serve  by  detachments  in  overseeing  and 
aiding  laborers  upon  fortications  or  other  works,  under  the  En- 
gineer Department,  and  in  supervising  finished  fortifications, 
as  fortkeepers,  preventing  injury  and  making  repairs. 

Sec  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Colonel  of  the  engi- 
neer corps,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 
to  prescribe  the  number,  quantity,  forms,  dimensions,  &c, 
of  the  necessary  vehicles,  arms,  pontons,  tools,  implements, 
and  other  supplies  foi#thc  service  of  the  said  companv  as  a 
body  of  sappers,  miners  and  pontoniers. 

Sec  o.  The  Corps  of  Artillery,  which  shall  also  be 
charged  with  ordnance  duties,  shall  consist  of  one  Colonel. 
one  Lieutenant  Colonel,  ten  Majors,  and  forty  companies  of 
artillerists  and  artificers,  and  each  company  shall  consist  of 
one  Captain,  two  first  Lieutenants,  one  second  Lieutenant. 


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four  sergeants,  four  corporals,  two  musicians  and  seventy 
privates.  There  shall  also  be  one  Adjutant,  to  be  selected 
by  the  Colonel  from  the  first  Lieutenants,  and  one  Sergeant 
Major,  to  be  selected  from  the  enlisted  men  of  the  corps. 
The  President  may  equip  as  light  batteries,  of  six  pieces 
each,  such  of  these  companies  as  he  may  deem  expedient, 
not  exceeding  four,  in  time  of  peace. 

Sec.  6.  Each  regiment  of  infantry  shall  consist  of  one 
Colonel,  one  Lieutenant  Colonel,  one  Major  and  ten  compa- 
nies;  each  company  shall  consist  of  one  Captain,  one  first 
Lieutenant,  two  second  Lieutenants,  four  sergeants,  four 
corporals,  two  musicians  and  ninety  privates ;  and  to  each 
regiment  there  shall  be  attached  one  Adjutant,  to  be  selected 
from  the  Lieutenants,  and  one  Sergeant  Major,  to  be  selected 
from  the  enlisted  men^of  the  regiment. 

Sec  7.  The  regiment  of  cavalry  shall  consist  of  one 
Colonel,  one  Lieutenant  Colonel,  one  Major  and  ten  compa- 
nies, each  of  which  shall  consist  of  one  Captain,  one  first 
Lieutenant,  two  second  Lieutenants,  four  sergeants,  four 
corporals,  one  farrier,  one  blacksmith,  two  musicians  and  sixty 
privates.  There  shall  also  be  one  Adjutant  and  one  Sergeant 
Major,  to  be  selected  as  aforesaid. 

Sec.  8.  There  shall  be  four  Brigadier  Generals,  who  shall 
be  assigned  to  such  commands  and  duties  as  the  President 
mav  specially  direct,  and  shall  be  entitled  to  one  Aid-de- 
Camp  each,  to  be  selected  from  the  subalterns  of  the  line  of 
the  army,  who,  in  addition  to  their  duties  as  Aids-de-Camp, 
may  perform  the  duties  of  Assistants  Adjutant  General. 

Sec.  9.  All  officers  of  the  army  shall  be  appointed  by  the 
President,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Con- 
gress, and  the  rank  and  file  shall  be  enlisted  for  a  term  not 
less  than  three  nor  more  than  five  years,  under  such  regula- 
tions as  may  be  established. 

Sec.  10.  No  officer  shall  be  appointed  in  the  army  until 
he  shall  have  passed  an  examination  satisfactory  to  the  Pre- 
sident, and  in  such  manner  as  he  may  prescribe,  as  to  his 
character  and  fitness  for  the  service.  The  President,  how- 
ever, shall  have  power  to  postpone  thfe  examination  for  one 
year  after  appointment,  if  in  his  judgment  necessary  for  the 
public  interest. 

Sec  11.  AJU  vacancies  in  established  regiments  and  corps, 
to  and  including  the  rank  of  Colonel,  shall  be  filled  by  pro- 
motion according  to  seniority,  except  in  case  of  disability  or 
Other  incompetency.     Promotions  to  and  including  the  rank 


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of  Colonel  shall  be  made  regimentally  in  the  infantry  and 
cavalry,  in  the  staff  departments,  and  in  the  engineers  and 
artillery,  according  to  corps.  Appointments  to  the  rank  of 
Brigadier  General,  after  the  army  is  organized,  shall  be  made 
by  selection  from  the  army. 

Sec.  12.  The  President  of  the  Confederate  States  is  hereby 
authorized  to  appoint  to  the  lowest  grades  of  subaltern 
officers  such  meritorious  non-commissioned  officers  as  may, 
upon  the  recommendations  of  their  Colonels  and  company 
officers,  be  brought  before  an  army  board,  specially  convened 
for  the  purpose,  and  found  qualified  for  the  duties  of  com- 
missioned officers,  and  to  attach  them  to  regiments  or  corps, 
as  supernumerary  officers,  if  there  be  no  vacancies :  Pro- 
vided, There  shall  not  be  more  than  one,  so  attached  to  any 
one  company  at  the  same  time. 

Sec  13.  The  pay  of  a  Brigadier  General  shall  be  three 
hundred  and  one  dollars  per  month.  The  Aid-de-Camp  of  a 
Brigadier  General,  in  addition  to  his  pay  as  Lieutenant,  shall 
receive  thirty-five  dollars  per  month. 

Sec  14.  The  monthly  pay  of •  the  officers  of  the  corps  of 
engineers  shall  be  as  follows:  of  the  Colonel,  two  hundred 
and  ten  dollars ;  of  a  Major,  one  hundred  and  sixty-two 
dollars  ;  of  a  Captain,  one  hundred  and  forty  dollars  ;  Lieu- 
tenants serving  with  the  company  of  sappers  and  miners 
shall  receive  the  pay  of  cavalry  officers  of  the  same  grade. 

Sec  1.5.  The  monthly  pay  of  the  Colonel  of  the  corps  of 
artillery  shall  be  two  hundred  and  ten  dollars ;  of  a  Lieuten- 
ant Colonel,  one  hundred  and  eighty-five  dollars  ;  of  a  Major, 
one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  and  when  serving  on  ordnance 
duty,  one  hundred  and  sixty-two  dollars;  of  a.  Captain, 
one  hundred  and  thirty  dollars  ;  of  a  first  Lieutenant,  ninety 
dollars  ;  of  a  second  Lieutenant,  eighty  dollars  ;  and  the  Ad- 
jutant shall  receive,  in  addition  to  his  pay  as  Lieutenant,  ten 
dollars  per  month.  Officers  of  artillery  serving  in  the  light 
artillery,  or  performing  ordnance  duty,  shall  receive  th^ 
same  pay  as  officers  of  cavalry  of  the  same  grade. 

Sec  16.  The  monthly  pay  of  the  officers  of  the  infantry 
shall  be  as  follows  :  of  a  Colonel,  one  hundred  and  ninety- 
five  dollars ;  of  a  Lieutenant  Colonel,  one  hundred  and 
seventy  dollars ;  of  a  Major,  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars ; 
of  a  Captain,  one  hundred  and  thirty  dollars  ;  of  a  first 
Lieutenant,  ninety  dollars;  of  a  second  Lieutentant,  eighty 
dollars;  the  Adjutant,  in  addition  to  his  pay  as  Lieutenant, 
ten  dollars. 


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Sfx.  17.  The  monthly  pay  of  the  officers  of  the  cavalry 
shall  be  as  follows:  of  a  Colonel,  two  hundred  and  ten  dol- 
lars; of  a  Lieutenant  Colonel^  one  hundred  and  eighty-five 
dollars;  a  Major,  one  hundred  and  sixty-two  dollars ;  a  Cap- 
tain, one  hundred  and  forty  dollars;  a  first  Lieutenant,  one 
hundred  dollars;  a  second  Lieutenant,  ninety  dollars;  the 
Adjutant,  ten  dollars  per  month,  in  addition  to  his  pay  as 
Lieutenant. 

Skc  18.  The  pay  of  the  officers  of  the  general  staff. 
except  those  of  the  Medical  Department,  shall  fie  the  same 
as  that  of  officers  of  cavalry  of  the  same  grade.  The  Sur- 
geon General  Bhall  receive  an  annual  salary  of  three  thou- 
Band  dollars,  which  shall  he  in  full  of  all  pay  and  allowances, 

except  fuel  and  quarters.     The  monthly  pay  of  a  Surgeon, 

of  ten  years1  service  in  that  grade,  shall  be  two  hundred 
dollars;  a  Surgeon  of  less  than  ten  years' service  in  that 
grade,  one  hundred  and  sixty-two  dollars;  an  Assistant  Sur- 
geou  of  ten  years'  service  in  that  grade,  one  hundred  and 

fifty  dollars;  an  Assistant  Surgeon  of  five  years'  ser\  ice  in 
that  grade,  one  hundred  and  thirty  dollars ;  and  an  Assistant. 
Surgeon  of  less  than  five  years'  service,  one  hundred  and 
ten  dollars. 

Sec.  19.  There  shall  be  allowed,  in  addition  to  the  pay 
hereinbefore  provided,  to  every  commissioned  officer,  except 
the  Surgeon  General,  nine  dollars  per  month  for  every  five 
years'  service;  and  to  the  officers  of  the  army  of  the  United 
States,  who  have  resigned  or  may  resign  to  be  received  into 
the  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  this  additional  pay 
shall  be  allowed  from  the  date  of  their  entrance  into  the 
former  service.  There  shall  also  be  an  additional  monthly 
allowance  to  every  General  officer  commanding  in  chief  a 
separate  army  actually  in   the  field,  of  one  hundred  dollars. 

Skc.  20.  The  pay  of  officers  as  hereinbefore  established 
shall  be  in  full  of  all  allowances,  except  forage,  find,  quarters 
aftd  traveling  expenses  while  traveling  under  orders.  The 
allowance  of  forage,  fuel  and  quarters  shall  be  fixed  by  regu- 
lations and  shall  lie  furnished  in  kind,  except  when  officers 
are  serving  at  stations  without  troops  where  public  quarters 
cannot  be  had,  in  which  ease  they  may  he  allowed,  in  lieu  of 
forage,  eight  dollars  per  month  tor  each  horse  to  which  they 
may  he  entitled,  provided  they  are  actually  kept  in  service 
and  mustered,  and  quarters  may  be  commuted  at  a  rate  to 
be  fixed  by  the   Secretary  of  War,  and  fuel  at   the  market 


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price  delivered.     An  officer  when  travelling  under  orders 
shall  be  allowed  mileage  at  the  rate  of  ten  cents  per  mil; 

Sec.  21.  In  time  of  war,  officers  of  the  army  shall  be 
entitled  to  draw  forage  for  horses,  according  to  grade,  as 
follows:  A  Brigadier  General,  four;  the  Adjutant  and  In- 
spector General,  Quartermaster  General,  Commissary  Gene- 
ral, and  the  Colonels  of  engineers,  artillery,  infantry  and 
cavalry,  three  each ;  all  Lieutenant  Colonels  and  Majors, 
and  Captains  of  the  general  staff,  engineer  corps,  light  artil- 
lery and  cavalry,  three  each ;  Lieutenants  serving  in  the 
corps  of  engineers,  Lieutenants  of  light  artillery  and  of 
cavalry,  two  each.  In  time  of  peace :  general  and  field 
officers,  three ;  officers  below  the  rank  of  field  officers,  in 
the  general  staff,  corps  of  engineers,  light  artillery  and 
cavalry,  two  :  Provided  in  all  cases  that  the  horses  are  ac- 
tually kept  in  service  and  mustered.  No  enlisted  man  in 
the  service  of  the  Confederate  States  shall  be  employed  as  a 
servant  by  any  officer  of  the  army. 

Sec.  22.  The  monthly  pay  of  the  enlisted  men  of  the 
army  of  the  Confederate  States  shall  be  as  follows  :  That  of 
a  sergeant  or  master  workman  of  the  engineer  corps,  thirty- 
four  dollars;  that  of  a  corporal  or  overseer,  twenty  dollars  ; 
privates  of  the  first  class,  or  artificers,  seventeen  dollars  ; 
and  privates  of  the  second  class,  or  laborers,  and  musicians, 
thirteen  dollars.  The  Sergeant  Major  of  cavalry,  twenty- 
one  dollars ;  first  sergeants,  twenty  dollars ;  Bergeants, 
seventeen  dollars;  Corporals,  farriers  and  blacksmiths,  thir- 
teen dollars  ;  musicians,  thirteen  dollars  ;  and  privates  twelve 
dollars.  The  Sergeants  Major  of  artillery  and  infantry, 
twenty-one  dollars ;  first  sergeants,  twenty  dollars  each ; 
sergeants,  seventeen  dollars ;  corporals  and  artificers,  thir- 
teen dollars  ;  musicians,  twelve  dollars  ;  and  privates  eleven 
dollars  each.  The  non-commissioned  officers,  artificers, 
musicians  and  privates  serving  in  light  batteries  shall  receive 
the  same  pay  as  those  of  cavalry. 

Sec  23.  The  President  shall  be  authorized  to  enlist  as 
many  Master  Armorers,  Master  Carriage-makers,  Master 
Blacksmiths,  armorers,  carriage-makers,  blacksmiths,  arti- 
ficers, and  laborers,  for  ordnance  service,  as  he  may  deem 
necessary,  not  exceeding  in  all  one  hundred  men,  who  shall 
be  attached  to  the  corps  of  artillery.  The  pay  of  a  Master 
Armorer,  Master  Carriage-maker,  or  Master  Blacksmith,  shall 
be  thirty-tour  dollars  per  month  ;  armorers,  carriage-makers 


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and  blacksmiths,  twenty  dollars  per  month  ;  artificers,  seven- 
teen dollars,  and  laborers,  thirteen  dollars  per  month. 

Sec  24.  Each  enlisted  man  of  the  army  of  the  Confede- 
rate States  shall  receive  one  ration  per  day,  and  a  yearly 
allowance  of  clothing,  the  quantity  and  kind  of  each  to  be 
established  by  regulations  from  the  War  Department,  to  be 
approved  by  the  President.  . 

Sec.  25.  Rations  shall  generally  be  issued  in  kind,  but 
under  circumstances  rendering  a  commutation  necessary. 
The  commutation  value  of  the  ration  shall  be  fixed  by  regu- 
lations of  the  War  Department,  to  be  approved  by  the  Pre- 
sident. 

Sec.  26.  The  officers  appointed  in  the  army  of  the  Con- 
federate States  by  virtue  of  this  act,  shall  perform  all  military 
duties  to  which  they  may  be  severally  assigned  by  authority 
of  the  President,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Secretary 
of  War,  to  prepare  and  publish  regulations,  prescribing  the 
details  of  every  department  in  the  service,  for  the  general 
government  of  the  army,  which  regulations  shall  lie  approved 
by  the  President,  and  when  so  approved  shall  be  binding. 

Sec  27.  All  officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  and  Commis- 
sary Departments  shall,  previous  to  entering  on  the  duties 
of  their  respective  offices,  give  bonds  with  good  and  sufficient 
sureties  to  the  Confederate  States,  in  such  sum  as  the  Secre- 
tary of  War  shall  direct,  fully  to  account  for  all  moneys  and 
public  property  which  they  may  receive. 

Sec  28.  Neither  the  Quartermaster  General,  the  Com- 
missary General,  nor  any  or  either  of  their  assistants,  shall 
be  concerned,  directly  or  indirectly,  in  the  purchase  or  sale 
of  any  articles  intended  for,  making  a  part  of,  or  appertain- 
ing to  public  supplies,  except  for  and  on  account  of  the  Con- 
federate States  ;  nor  shall  they,  or  either  of  them,  take  or 
apply  to  his  or  their  own  use  any  gain  or  emolument  for  ne- 
gotiating any  business  in  their  respective  departments,  other 
than  what  is  or  may  be  allowed  by  law. 

Sec  29.  The  Rules  and  Articles  of  War  established  by 
the  laws  of  the  United  States  of  America  for  the  govern- 
ment of  the  army  are  hereby  declared  to  be  of  force,  except 
that  wherever  the  words  "United  States"  occur,  the  words 
"Confederate  States"  shall  be  substituted  therefor;  and 
except  that  the  articles  of  war  numbers  sixty-one  and  sixty- 
two  are  hereby  abrogated,  and  the  following  articles  substi- 
tuted therefor : 

Article  61.  Officers  having  brevets  or  commissions  of  a 


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prior  date  to  those  of  the  corps  in  which  they  serve  will  take 
place  on  courts  martial  or  of  inquiry,  and  on  boards  detailed 
for  military  purposes,  when  composed  of  different  corps,  ac- 
cording to  the  ranks  given  them  in  their  brevet  or  former 
commissions,  but  in  the  regiment,  corps,  or  company,  to 
which  such  officers  belong,  they  shall  do  duty  and  take  rank, 
both  in  courts  and  on  boards  as  aforesaid,  which  shall  be 
composed  of  their  own  corps,  according  to  the  commission 
by  which  they  are  there  mustered. 

Article  62.  If  upon  marches,  guards,  or  in  quarters,  dif- 
ferent corps  shall  happen  to  join  or  do  duty  together,  the 
officer  highest  in  rank,  according  to  the  commission  by  which 
he  is  mustered  in  the  army,  navy,  marine  corps,  or  militia, 
there  on  duty  by  orders  from  competent  authority,  shall 
command  the  whole  and' give  orders  for  what  is  needful  for 
the  service,  unless  otherwise  directed  by  the  President  of  the 
Confederate  States  in  orders  of  special  assignment  providing 
for  the  case. 

Sec  30.  The  President  shall  call  into  the  service  of  the 
Confederate  States  only  so  many  of  the  troops  herein  pro- 
vided for  as  he  may  deem  the  safety  of  the  Confederacy  may 
require. 

Sec  31.  All  laws  or  parts  of  laws  of  the  United  States, 
which  have  been  adopted  by  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate 
States,  repugnant  to  or  inconsistent  with  this  act,  are  hereby 
repealed. 

Approved,  March  6,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

To  create  the  Clerical  Force  of  the  several  Executive  De- 
partments of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  and  for 
other  purposes. 

Section  1.  Tlie  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  the  Clerical  force  of  the  several  depart- 
ments of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  shall  consist  of 
the  following  officers :  To  the  War  Department  there  shall  be 
a  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  War,  at  an  annual  salary  of  three 
thousand  dollars,  and  five  clerks,  who  shall  each  receive 
twelve  hundred  dollars  per  annum ;  and  one  of  them  may 
be  appointed  disbursing  clerk,  with  an  additional  salary  of 
six  hundred  dollars,  who  shall  give  bond  with  sureties  to  be 


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approved  by  the  Secretary  of  War.  There  shall  also  ho  one 
messenger,  whose  compensation  shall  be  five  hundred  dollars 
per  annum.  And  to  all  of  the  bureaus  of  the  War  De- 
partment, viz:  the.  Adjutant  and  Inspector  ( Jeneral,  Quar- 
termaster General,  the  Commissary  General,  the  Surgeon 
General,  the  Chief  Engineer  and  the  Artillery,  there  shall  be 
fourteen  clerks,  seven  of  whom  shall  receive  each  a  salary 
of  twelve  hundred  dollars,  and  seven  a  salary  each  of  one 
thousand  dollars  per  annum. 

And  the  Secretary  of  War  is  hereby  authorized  to  assign 
said  clerks  to  duty  in  the  respective  offices  as  enumerated, 
as  in  his  judgment  will  best  promote  the  public  service. 
And  to  each  of  said  named  bureaus,  except  the  office  of  Sur- 
geon General,  there  shall  be,  if  deemed  necessary  by  the 
Secretary  of  War.  a  messenger,  at  an  annual  compensation 
of  five  hundred  dollars. 

Sec.  4.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Secretaries  of 
State,  Treasury,  War,  Navy,  Attorney  General,  and  Post- 
master General  arc  hereby  authorized  to  employ  such  other 
clerical  force  in  their  respective  departments  as  the  exigen- 
cies of  the  public  service  may  absolutely  require,  being 
limited  in  the  compensation  to  the  lower  grade  of  salary  for 
clerks  provided  for  in  this  bill ;  they  are  also  empowered  to 
employ  such  laborers  for  their  respective  offices  as  may  be 
required,  not  exceeding  one  for  each  of  the  executive  de- 
partments, and  whose  compensation  shall  not  exceed  one 
dollar  and  fifty  cents  per  day. 

Approved,  March  7,  18G1. 


AN  ACT 

Making  appropriation  lor  the  support  of  Three  Thousand 
Men  for  twelve  months,  to  be  called  into  service  at  Charles- 
ton, South  Carolina,  under  the  third  and  fourth  sections 
of  an  "Act  of  the  Congress  '-To  raise  Provisional  Forces 
for  the  Confederate  States  of  America  and  for  other  pur- 
poses." 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  tlvt  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  the  following  appropriations  be  made  for 
the  support  of  the  provisional  troops  called  into  service  by 
the  act  aforesaid :  Pay  of  the  troops,  six  hundred  and  fifty- 
eight  thousand  six  hundred  and  eighty  dollars.     Forage  for 


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officers'  horses  and  quartermasters'  animals  and  cavalry 
horses,  twenty  thousand  six  hundred  and  sixty-two  dollars. 
Subsistence  for  troops  two  hundred  and  seventy  thousand  dol- 
lars. Clothing  for  troops,  two  hundred  thousand  dollars.  Camp 
and  garrison  equipage,  eighteen  thousand  two  hundred  and 
sixty-seven  dollars  and  seventy-two  cents.  Supplies  for  the 
quartermaster's  department,  seventy-six  thousand  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty  dollars.  Fuel  for  troops  and  hospitals,  fifty- 
nine  thousand  nine  hundred  and  ninety-seven  dollars.  Mcdi- 
cal  and  hospital  department,  twenty  thousand  dollars. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  additional  sum 
of  eight  hundred  and  sixty  thousand  two  hundred  and  twenty- 
eight  dollars  and  forty-five  cents  is  hereby  appropriated  for 
the  support  of  two  thousand  additional  troops  to  be  called 
into  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States  for  twelve  months, 
at  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  whenever  in  the  discretion  of 
the  President  their  services  may  be  required. 

Approved,  March  11,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

Making  appropriations  for  the  support  of  the  Regular  Armv 
of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  for  twelve  months, 
and  for  other  purposes. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  the  following  appropriations  are  made  for 
the  support  of  the  regular  army  for  twelve  months,  viz  :  For 
expenses  of  recruiting  and  for  transportation  of  recruits,  one 
hundred  and  ninety-two  thousand  five  hundred  dollars.  Pay 
of  the  army,  two  millions  seventy  thousand  four  hundred  and 
eighty-four  dollars.  Forage  for  officers'  horses  and  for  cav- 
alry and  light  artillery  horses,  one  hundred  and  seven  thou- 
sand two  hundred  dollars.  Subsistence  for  troops,  nine 
hundred  and  twelve  thousand  five  hundred  dollars.  Clothing 
for  the  army,  six  hundred  and  forty-eight  thousand  seven 
hundred  and  eighty  dollars.  Camp  and  garrison  equipage, 
sixty  thousand  dollars.  Supplies  for  the  Quartermaster's 
department — consisting  of  fuel  for  the  officers,  enlisted  men. 
guards,  hospitals,  store-houses  and  offices ;  of  forage  in 
kind  for  horses,  mules  and  oxen  of  the  Quartermaster's  de- 
partment, at  the  several  posts  and  stations  and  with  the  armies 
in  the  field  ;  of  postage  on  letters  and  packages  received  and 
2 


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sent  by  officers  of  the  army  <>n  public  service;  expenses  of 
courts  martial  and  courts  of enquiry,  including  the  additional 
compensation  of  judge  advocates,  recorders,  members,  and 
witnesses,  while  in  thai  service;  extra  pay  to  soldiers  en> 
ployed  under  the  direction  of  the  Quartermaster's  department 
in  the  erection  of  barracks,  Quarters,  Btore-houses,  and  hos- 
pitals, fit i-  constant  labor  for  periods  of  not  less  than  ten  da 
including  those  employed  as  clerk- ;  expense  of  interment  ef 

officers  killed  in  action,  or  who  die  when  on  duty  in  the  field, 
or  at  the  posts  on  the  frontiers,  and  ol  non-commissioned  offi- 
cers and  soldiers;  authorized  office  furniture;  hire  of  Labor* 
ersin  the  Quartermaster's  department ;  compensation  of  clerks 
of  the  officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  department;  for  the 

apprehension  of    deserters  and  the  expenses  incident  to  their 

pursuit;  for  the  following  expenses  required  for  the  regiment 

of  cavalry  and  for  the  four  batteries  of  light  artillery  ;  namely. 

the  purchase  of  traveling  forges,  blacksmith's  and  Bhoeing 

tools,  horse  aud  mule  shoes  and  nails,  iron  and  steel  for 
Bhoeing;  medicine  for  horses  and  mules  ;  picket  ropes,  ami 
for  Bhoeing  the  horses  of  the  corps  named,  three  hundred  and 
fifty-three  thousand  nine  hundred  and  fifty-six  dollars.  For 
constructing  barracks  and  other  buildings  at  posts  which  it 
may  he  necessary  to  occupy  during  the  year,  and  for  repair- 
ing, altering  and  enlarging  buildings  at  the  established  posts, 
including  hire  or  commutation  of  quarters  for  officers  on 
military  duty,  hire  of  quarters  for  troops,  of  Btore-houses 
for  the  safekeeping  of  military  stores,  and  of  grounds  for  sum- 
mer cantonments  and  for  temporary  frontier  stations,  for 
commutation  of  forage  for  officer's  horses  when  it  cannot  be 
drawn  in  kind,  three  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars.  For 
mileage,  or  the  allowance  made  to  officers  of  the  army  for 
the  transportation  of  themselves  and  their  baggage  when 
traveling  on  duty  without  troops,  escorts,  or  supplies,  thirty- 
five  thousand  dollars:  Provided,  Thai  mileage  shall  not  be 
allow ed  when  the  officer  has  been  transferred  or  relieved  at 
his  own  request .  Fee  I  transportation  of  the  army — including 
the  baggage  of  the  troops  when  moving  either  by  land  or 
water,  of  horse  equipments,  and  of  subsistence — from  the 
places  of  purchase,  and  from  the  places  of  delivery  under 
contract,  to  such  places  as  the  circumstances  of  the  sei-\  ice 
may  require  them  to  be  sent,  of  ordnance,  ordnance  stores, 
ami  small  arms,  freights,  wharfage,  tolls,  and  ferriages,  hiro 
of  horses,  mules,  and  oxen,  and  the  purchase  and  repair  of 
wagons,  carts,  and  drays,  and  of  ships  and  other  sea-going 


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vessels  required  for  the  transportation  of  supplies  and  for 
garrison  purposes,  for  drayage  and  cartage  at  tlie  several 
posts,  hire  of  teamsters,  transportation  of  funds  for  the  dis- 
bursing departments,  the  expense  of  public  transports  on  the 
various  rivers,  the  Gulf  of  Mexico  and  the  Atlantic,  six 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars.  For  the  purchase  of 
horses  for  the  regiment  of  cavalry  and  four  batteries  of  light 
artillery,  one  hundred  and  sixty  three  thousand  two  hundred 
dollars.  Contingencies  of  the  army,  fifteen  thousand  dollars. 
For  the  medical  and  hospital  departments,  seventy-five  thou- 
sand dollars.  Contingencies  of  the  Adjutant  General's  de- 
partment, six  hundred  dollars.  Armament  of  fortifications 
and  purchase  of  light  artillery,  two  hundred  and  fifty  thou- 
sand dollars.  Purchase,  manufacture,  and  alteration  of  small 
arms,  four  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars.  For  ordnance, 
ordnance  stores  and  supplies,  including  horse  equipments 
for  the  regiment  of  cavalry  and  for  light  batteries,  one  hun- 
dred and  ninety-nine  thousand  five  hundred  and  forty  dol- 
lars. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Secretary  of 
War,  under  the  direction  of  the  President,  be,  and  he  is 
hereby,  authorized  to  apply  any  portion  of  the  appropriations 
made  by  this  act  to  the  support  of  the  provisional  forces 
which  may  be  called  into  service,  whenever,  in  his  opinion, 
the  same  may  be  necessary. 

Approved,  March.  11,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

Making  appropriations  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  "  An 
act  to  provide  for  the  public  defence." 

Section  1 .  Tlie  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica *do  enact,  That  to  enable  the  President  to  carry  into  effect 
the  provisions  of  the  act  of  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate 
States,  entitled  "  An  act  to  provide  for  the  public  defence," 
and  to  provide  for  the  pay,  subsistence,  and  transportation 
of  such  volunteer  forces  as  may  be  called  into  service  by 
authority  of  the  said  act,  the  sum  of  five  millions*  of  dollars, 
or  as  much  thereof  as  may  be  necessary,  be  and  the  same  is 
hereby  appropriated,  from  any  moneys  in  the  Treasury  not 
otherwise  appropriated. 

Approved,  March   12,  186  k 


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AN  ACT 

Amendatory  of  an  Act  for  the  organization  of  the  Staff  De- 
partments of  the  Army,  and  an  Act  for  the  establishment 
and  organisation  of  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States 

of  America. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  the  Adjutant  ami  [nspector  General's 
department  Bhall  consist  of  two  Assistant  Adjutants  General 

with  tlic  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel,  two  Assistant  Adju- 
tants General  with  the  rank  of  Major,  ami  four  Assistant 
Adjutants  General  with  the  rank  of  Captain. 

Sec.  %.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  there  shall  be  added 
one  Brigadier  General  to  those  heretofore  authorized  by  Law, 
and  that  any  one  of  the  Brigadier  Generals  of  the  army  of 
the  Confederate  Stales  may  be  assigned  tothe  duty  of  Adju- 
tant and  Inspector  General,  at  the  discretion  of  the  Presi- 
dent. 

Sec.  3.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Quartermaster  Gen- 
eral's department  shall  consist  of  one  Quartermaster  General 
with  the  rank  of  Colonel,  one  Assistant  Quartermaster  Gen- 
eral with  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel,  four  Assistant 
Quartermasters  with  the  rank  of  Major,  and  such  other 
officers  in  that  department  as  are  already  provided  by  law. 

Sec  4.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Commissary  Gen- 
eral's department  shall  consist  of  one 'Commissary  General 
with  the  rank  of  Colonel,  one  Commissary  with  the  rank  of 
Lieutenant  Colonel,  one  Commissary  with  the  rank  oi  Major, 
and  three  Commissaries  with  the  rank  of  Captain,  and  as 
many  Assistant  Commissaries  as  may  from  time  to  time  he 
required  by  the  service  may  he  detailed  by  the  War  Depart- 
ment from  the  subalterns  of  the  line.  who.  in  addition  to  their 
pay  in  the  line,  shall  receive  twenty  dollars  per  month  while 
engaged  in  that  service. 

Sec  5.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  in  all  eases  of  officers 
who  have  resigned,  or  who  may  within  six  months  tender 
their  resignations  from  the  army  of  the  United  States,  and 
who  have  been  or  may  he  appointed  to  original  vacancies  in 
the  army  of  the  Confederate  States,  the  commissions  issued 
shall  bear  one  and  the  same  date,  so  that  the  relative  rank 
of  officers  of  each  grade  shall  he  determined  by  their  former 
commissions  in  the  United  States  army,  held  anterior  to  tho 
secession  of  these  Confederate  States  from  the  United  States. 

Sec.  6.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  every  officer,  non-com- 


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missioned  officer,  musician,  and  private  shall  take  and  sub- 
scribe the  following  oath  or  affirmation,  to  wit:  I,  A.  B.,  do 
solemnly  swear  or  affirm  (as  the  case  may  be)  that  while  I 
continue  in  the  service  I  will  bear  true  faith  and  yield  obe- 
dience to  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  and  that  I  will 
serve  them  honestly  and  faithfully  against  their  enemies,  and 
that  I  will  observe  and  obey  the  orders  of  the  President  of 
the  Confederate  States,  and  the  orders  of  the  officers  appointed 
over  me,  according  to  the  rules  and  articles  of  war. 

Sec.  7.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  laws  and  parts  of 
laws  militating  against  this  act  be,  and  the  same  are  hereby, 
repealed. 

Approved,  March   14,  1861. 


♦ 


AN  ACT 
To  establish  the  Bureau  of  Indian  Affairs. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  an  additional  bureau  in  the  War  Depart- 
ment be,  and  the  same  is  hereby,  established,  to  be  known  as 
the  Bureau  of  Indian  Affairs,  and  charged  with  the  manage- 
ment of  our  relations  with  the  Indian  tribes. 

Sec.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  President,  by  and 
with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Congress,  may  appoint  a 
Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs  and  one  clerk,  to  take  charge 
of  the  business  of  the  bureau  hereby  established,  the  salary 
of  the  Commissioner  to  be  twenty-five  hundred  dollars  per 
annum,  and  the  salary  of  the  clerk  fifteen  hundred  dollars 
per  annum. 

Approved,  March   15,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

Making  additional  appropriations  for  the  support  of  the  Army, 
for  the  year  ending  the  first  of  March,  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty-two. 

The  Congress  of  t/ie  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  following  sum  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby  appropri- 
ated out  of  any  money  in  the  Treasury  not  otherwise  appro- 
priated, namely  :  For  the  purchase  of  ordnance  and  ordnance 
8tores,  one  hundred  and  ten  thousand  dollars. 

Approved,  March  16,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

Making  appropriation  for  the  service  of  the  Bureau  of  Indian 

A  iVairs. 

Sbctioi  1.  The  Congress  of  the  ConfederaU  States  <■/' 
rim  do  enact.  That  tin-  following  Bum  be,  and  the  same 
hereby,  appropriated,  out  of  any  money  in  the  Treasury  not 
others  ise  appropriated,  for  tin-  Ben  ice  of  the  Bureau  of  [ndian 
Affairs,  for  the  year  ending  first  of  March,  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty-two.  namely:  for  tin-  Balary  of  the  Commissioner 
and  chief  clerk  of  the  Bureau  of  Indian  Affairs  and  incidental 
expenses  of  the  bureau,  five  thousand  dollars. 

Approved,  March  1G,  1S61. 


AN  ACT 
To  provide  for  the  appointment  of  Chaplains  in  the  Army. 

Section  1.  T/ie  Congress  of  tlve  Confederate  States  of  Amer- 
ica do  enact,  That  there  shall  lie  appointed  by  the  President 
such  number  of  chaplains,  to  serve  with  the  armies  of  the 
Confederate  States  during  the  existing  war,  as  he  may  deem 
expedient;  and  the  President  shall  assign  them  to  such  regi- 
ments, brigades,  or  posts,  as  he  may  deem  necessary  ;  and 
the  appointments  made  as  aforesaid  shall  expire  whenever  the 
existing  Avar  shall  terminate. 

Sec.  2.  The  monthly  pay  of  said  chaplains  shall  he  eighty - 
five  dollars  ;  and  said  pay  shall  he  in  full  of  all  allowances 
whatever. 

Appboyed  May  3,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

Providing  for  a  Itcgimcnt  of  Zouaves  in  the  Army  of  the 
Confederate  States. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Amer- 
ica do  enact,  That  there  shall  he  added  to  the  military  estab- 
lishment of  the  Confederate  States  one  regiment  of  Zouaves, 
to  be  composed  of  one  Colonel,  one  Lieutenant-colonel,  one 
Major,  and  ten  companies ;  and  each  company  shall  consist 
of  one  Captain,  one  First  Lieutenant,  two  Second  Lieuten- 
ants, one   Sergeant  Major,   one  Quartermaster's  Sergeant, 


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Four  Sergeants  and  eight  Corporals,  and  ninety  privates. 
And  to  the  regiment  there  shall  be  attached  one  Adjutant  and 
a  Quartermaster,  to  be  selected  from  the  Lieutenants.  And 
one  Assistant  Surgeon  shall  be  appointed  for  the  regiment, 
in  addition  to  those  already  authorized  by  law  for  the  medi- 
cal department.  The  monthly  pay  of  the  officers  of  the  regi- 
ment of  Zouaves  shall  be  the  same  as  that  of  officers  of  in- 
fantry of  the  same  rank  ;  the  allowances  shall  also  be  the 
same  as  those  provided  by  law  for  officers  of  infantry;  and 
the  Adjutant  and  Quartermaster  shall  receive  ten  dollars  per 
month  in  addition  to  their  pay  as  Lieutenants.  The  month- 
ly pay  of  the  enlisted  men  of  said  regiment  of  Zouaves  shall 
be  as  follows :  Sergeants  Major  and  Quartermaster's  Ser- 
geants, twenty  dollars;  Sergeants,  seventeen  dollars;  Cor- 
porals, thirteen  dollars  ;  and  privates,  eleven  dollars  each  ; 
together  with  the  same  rations  and  allowance  for  clothing  as 
-are  received  by  all  other  enlisted  men. 

Approved  May  4,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

To  raise  an  additional  Military  Force  to  serve  during  the 

War. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  in  addition  to  the  volunteer  force  author- 
ized to  be  raised  under  existing  laws,  the  President  be  and 
lie  is  hereby  authorized  to  accept  the  services  of  volunteers 
who  may  offer  their  services,  without  regard  to  the  place  of 
-enlistment,  either  as  cavalry,  mounted  riflemen,  artillery,  or 
infantry,  in  such  proportion  of  these  several  arms  as  he  may 
•deem  expedient,  to  serve  for  and  during  the  existing  war, 
unless  sooner  discharged. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  volunteers  so  offering  their  services  may 
l>e  accepted  by  the  President  in  companies,  to  be  organized 
by  him  into  squadrons,  battalions  or  regiments.  The  Presi- 
dent shall  appoint  all  field  and  staff  officers,  but  the  company 
officers  shall  be  elected  by  the  men  composing  the  company ; 
and  if  accepted,  the  officers  so  elected  shall  be  commissioned 
by  the  President. 

Sec  3.  That  any  vacancies  occurring  in  the  ranks  of  the 
several  companies  mustered  into  service  under  the  provisions 
of  this  act,  may  be  filled  by  volunteers  accepted  under  the 


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rules  of  such  companies  ;  and  any  vacancies  occurring  in 
the  officers  of  such  companies  shall  be  filled  by  elections  in 
accordance  with  the  Bame  rules. 

Sec.  4.  Except  as  herein  differently  provided,  the  volun- 
teer forces  hereby  authorised  to  be  raised  shall  in  all  regards 
be  subject  to  and  organized  in  accordance  with  the  provisions 
of  "An  act  to  provide  for  the  public  defence,"  and  all  other 
acts  for  the  government  of  the  armies  of  the  Confederate 
States. 

Approveo  May  8,  1861. 


A  RESOLUTION 

In  regard  to  the  Military  Expenditures  made  by  the  State  of 
South  Carolina. 

Resolved  by  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica. That  the  expenditures  made  by  the  State  of  South  Car- 
olina for  the  pay  and  maintenance  of  the  troops  employed  in 
the  defence  of  the  Charleston  harbor,  under  the  command  of 
Brigadier  General  Beauregard,  were  intended  to  be  provided 
for  by  an  act  making  appropriations  for  the  support  of  three 
thousand  men,  for  twelve  months,  to  be  called  into  service  at 
Charleston,  South  Carolina,  under  the  third  and  fourth  sec- 
tions of  an  act  of  the  Congress,  to  raise  provisional  forces 
for  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  and  for  other  pur- 
poses;  and  that  the  amount  of  such  expenditures  be  audited 
by  the  proper  officer  of  the  Treasury  Department,  and  that 
the  amount  which  shall  be  found  due  be  paid  to  the  State  of 
South  Carolina,  from  the  appropriation  made  by  the  Act 
aforesaid. 

Approved  May  10,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

To  amend  "  An  Act  to  Provide  for  the  Public  Defence," 
approved  March  6,  1861. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  the  President  may  receive  into  the  service 
of  the  Confederate   States  any  company   of  light  artillery, 


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which  by  said  act  he  is  authorized  to  do,  with  such  comple- 
ment of  officers  and  men,  and  with  such  equipments  as  to 
him  shall  seem  proper ;  anything  in  said  act  of  the  6th  of 
March,  1861,  to  the  contrary,  notwithstanding. 

Approved  May  10,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

To  make  further  provision  for  the  Public  Defence. 

Whereas,  War  exists  between  the  United  States  and  the 
Confederate  States ;  and  whereas  the  public  welfare  may  re- 
quire the  reception  of  volunteer  forces  into  the  service  of 
the  Confederate  States,  without  the  formality  and  delay  of  a 
call  upon  the  respective  States. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  the* President  be  authorized  to  receive 
into  service  sucb  companies,  battalions  or  regiments,. either 
mounted  or  on  foot,  as  may  tender  themselves,  and  he  may 
require,  without  the  delay  of  a  formal  call  upon  the  respect- 
ive States,  to  serve  for  such  time  as  he  may  prescril 

Sec.  2.  Such  volunteer  forces  who  may  be  accepted  under 
this  act,  except  as  herein  differently  provided,  shall  be  organ- 
ized in  accordance  with  and  subject  to  all  the  provisions  of 
the  act  entitled  "  An  act  .to  provide  for  the  public  defence," 
and  be  entitled  to  all  the  allowances  provided  therein  ;  and 
when  mustered  into,  service,  may  be  attached  to  such  divi- 
sions, brigades  or  regiments  as  the  President  may  direct,  or 
ordered  upon  such  independent  or  detached  service  as  the 
President  may  deem  expedient;  provided,  however,  that  bat- 
talions and  regiments  may  be  enlisted  from  States  not  of  the 
Confederacy,  and  the  President  may  appoint  all  or  any  of 
the  field  officers  thereof. 

Sec  3.  The  President  shall  be  authorized  to  commission 
all  officers  entitled  to  commissions,  of  such  volunteer  forces 
as  may  be  received  under  the  provisions  of  this  act.  And 
upon  the  request  of  the  officer  commanding  such  volunteer 
regiment,  battalion  or  company,  the  President  may  attach  a 
supernumerary  officer  to  each  company,  detailed  from  the  regu- 
lar army  for  that  purpose,  and  for  such  time  as  the  President 
may  direct. 

Approved  May  11,  1861.         * 


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AX   ACT 

Relative  to  Telegraph  Linos  <>f  the  Confederate  States. 

Section  1.   Ttu  I  \  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 

rica do  enact,  Thai  daring  the  existing  war,  the  President  be 
and  lie  is  hereby  authorized  mid  empowered  t"  take  such  con- 
trol of  Bnch  of  the  lines  of  telegraph  in  the  Confederate 
Smtcs.  and  of  Bach  of  the  officers  connected  therewith,  ai 
will  enable  him  effectually  t<»  supervise  the  communications 
passing  through  the  Bame,  to  the  end  that  no  communications 
shall  he  conveyed  of  the  military  operations  of  the  Govern- 
ment to  endanger  the  success  of  Mich   operations,   nor  any 

Communication  calculated  to  injure  the  cause  of  the  Confede- 
rate Stall's,  or  to  give  aid  and  comfort  to  their   enemies. 
Sec.  2.  The  President  shall  appoint  trustworthy  agents ia 

such  offices,  and  at  such  points  <ui  the  various  lines  as  he 
may  think  lit,  whose  duty  it  shall  he  to  supervise  all  com- 
munications sent  or  passing  through  said  lines,  and  to  pre- 
vent the  transmission  of  any  communication  deemed  to  be 
detrimental  to  the  public  service. 

Sec  8.  In  case  the  owners  and  managers  of  said  lines 
shall  refuse  to  permit  such  supervision,  or  shall  fail  or  refuse 
to  keep  up  and  continue  the  business  on  said  lines,  the  Pre- 
sident is  hereby  empowered  to  take  possession  of  the  same 
for  the  purposes  aforesaid. 

Sec.  4.  The  President  shall  from  time  to  time  issue  in- 
structions to  the  agents  so  appointed,  and  to  the  operators  of 
the  various  lines,  to  regulate  the  transmission  of  connnuni- 
cations  touching  the  operations  of  the  Government,  or  cal- 
culated to  affect  the  public  welfare. 

Sec  5.  That  the  President,  at  his  discretion,  may  employ 
the  operators  of  the  lines  as  the  agents  of  the  Government, 
so  that  m  this,  as  in  nil  other  respects,  there  maybe  as  little 
interference  with  the  business  and  management  of  such  lines 
as  may  be  compatible  with  the  public  interest. 

Sec  G.  That  the  compensation  of  the  agents  appointed 
under  this  act,  where  such  agents  are  not  officers  of  the  com- 
pany, and  the  expense  attending  the  execution  of  the  provi- 
sions of  this  act,  shall  lie  paid  out  of  the  treasury. 

Sec.  7.  That  no  communications  in  cypher,  nor  enigmati- 
cal, or  other  doubtful  communication,  shall  bo  transmitted, 
unless  the  person  sending  the  same  shall  be  known  to  the 
agent  of  tbc  Government  to  bo  trustworthy,  nor  until  the 


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real  purport  of  such  communication  shall  be  explained  to 
such  agent. 

Sec.  8.  That  the  President  is  hereby  authorized,  whenever 
it  may  be  found  necessary  or  advisable  for  the  successful  pro- 
secution of  the  war,  to  extend  existing  lines  of  telegraph,  or 
make  connections  between  the  same,  the  expense  of  con- 
tracting such  additional  lines  to  be  paid  out  of  any  money 
in  the  Treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated. 

Sec.  9.  That  all  present  and  future  officers  of  the  telegraph 
lines  engaged  in  receiving  and  transmitting  intelligence  with- 
in the  Confederate  States  shall,  as  soon  as  practicable  after 
the  passage  of  this  act  or  after  their  appointment,  take  and 
subscribe  before  any  judicial  offieer  of  any  one  of  the  Con- 
federate States,  the  following  oath:  "I,  A.  B.,  do  solemnly 
swear  that  I  will  support  and  maintain  the  Constitution  of 
the  Confederate  States  of  America,  and  will  not,  knowingly, 
directly  or  indirectly,  transmit  through  the  telegraph  any 
communication  or  information  calculated  to  injure  the  cause 
of  the  Confederate  States,  or  to  give  aid  or  comfort  to  the 
enemies." 

Sec.  10.  That  if  any  person  shall  knowingly  sender  trans- 
mit any  message  or  communication  touching  the  military 
operations  of  the  Government,  without  the  same  being  first 
submitted  to  the  inspection  of  the  agent  of  the  Government, 
or  any  message  calculated  to  aid  and  promote  the  cause  of 
the  enemies  of  the  Confederate  States,  be  shall  be  subject  to 
indictment  in  the  District  Court  of  the  Confederate  States, 
and  on  conviction  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  five 
hundred  dollars,  and  imprisoned  for  a  term  not  less  than  one 
year. 

Approved  May  11,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

Regulating  the  Sale  of  Prizes,  and  the  Distribution  thereof. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  all  prizes  of  vessels  and  property  cap- 
tured by  private  armed  ships,  in  pursuance  of  the  act  passed 
by  Congress  recognizing  the  existence  of  war  between  the 
United  States  and  the  Confederate  States,  and  concerning 
letters  of  marque,  prizes  and  prize  goods,  which  may  be  con- 
demned in  any  court  of  the  Confederate  States,  shall  be  sold 
at  public  auction  by  the  Marshal  of  the  district  in  which  the 


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same  shall  be  condemned,  within  sixty  days  after  the  con- 
demnation  thereof — sufficient  notice  of  the  time  and  place 
and  condition  of  sale  being  first  given — on  Buchdayordays, 
on  anch  terms  of  credit,  and  in  such  lots  or  proportions  as 
may  be  designated  by  the  owner  or  owners,  or  agent  <>f  the 
owner  or  owners,  of  the  privateer  which  may  have  captured 
the  same:    Provided,  That  the  term  of  such  credit  shall  not 

exceed  ninety  days.  And  the  said  Marshal  is  hereby  direct- 
ed to  take  and  receive  from    the    purchaser   Or   purchasers   of 

such  prize  vessel  and  property,  the  money  therefor,  or  his, 
her  or  their  promissory  notes,  with  endorsers,  to  be  approved 
by  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  privateer,  to  the  amount  of 
the  purchase,  payable  according  to  the  terms  thereof. 

Sec.  2.  That  upon  all  duties,  costs  and  charges  being  paid 
according  to  law,  the  said  Marshal  shall,  on  demand,  deliver 
and  pay  ever  to  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  privateer,  or  to 
the  agent  of  such   owner  or  owners  of  the  privateer  which 

may  have  captured  such  prize  vessel  and  property,  a  just 
and  equal  proportion  of  the  funds  received  on  account  of  the 
sale  thereof,  and  of  the  promissory  note-  directed  to  he  taken 
as  aforesaid,  to  which  the  said  owner  or  owners  may  be  en- 
titled, according  to  the  articles  of  agreement  between  the  said 
owner  or  owners  and  the  officers  and  crew  of  the  said  priva- 
teer; and  a  just  and  equal  proportion  of  the  proceeds  of  the 
sale  as  aforesaid,  shall,  on  demand,  be  also  paid  over  by  the 
said  Marshal  to  the  officers  and  crew  of  the  said  privateer, 
or  to  their  agent  or  agents.  And  if  there  be  no  written 
agreement,  it  shall  he  the  duty  of  the  Marshal  to  pay  over, 
in  manner  as  aforesaid,  one  moiety  of  the  proceeds  of  the 
proceeds  of  the  sale  of  such  prize  vessel  and  property  to  the 
owner  or  owners  of  the  privateer  which  may  have  captured 

the  same,  and   the  other    moiety   of  the   said   proceeds  to  the 

agent  or  agents  of  the  officers  and  crew  of  the  said  priva- 
teer, to  be  distributed  according  to  law,  or  to  any  agreement 
by  them  made:  Provided,  The  said  officers  and  crew,  or  their 
agent  or  agents,  shall  have  first  refunded  to  the  owner  or 
owners,  or  to  the  agent  of  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  pri- 
vateer aforesaid,  the  full  amount  of  advances  which  shall 
have  heen  made  by  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  privateer  to 
the  officers  and  crew  thereof. 

Sec  .'3.  That  for  the  selling  prize  property  and  receiving 
and  paying  over  the  proceeds  as  aforesaid,  the  Marshal  shall 
be  entitled  to  a  commission  of  one  per  cent,  and  no  more, 
fust  deducting  all  duties,  costs  and  charges  which  may  have 


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accrued  on  said  property  :  Provided,  That  on  no  case  of  con- 
demnation and  sale  of  any  one  prize  vessel  and  cargo  shall 
the  commissions  of  the  Marshal  exceed  two  hundred  and 
fifty  dollars.  • 

Sec.  4.  That  it  shall  he  the  duty  of  the  Marshal,  within 
fifteen  days  after  any  sale  of  prize  property,  to  file  in  the 
office  of  the  Clerk  of  the  District  Court  of  the  district 
wherein  such  sale  may  be  mad'.',  a  just  and  true  account  of 
the  sales  of  such  prize  property,  and  of  all  duties  and  char..  - 
thereon,  together  with  a  statement  thereto  annexed  of  the 
promissory  notes  taken  on  account  thereof,  which  account 
shall  he  verified  by  the  oath  of  the  said  Marshal  ;  ami  if  the 
said  Marshal  shall  wilfully  neglect  or  refuse  to  file  such  ac- 
count, he  shall  forfeit  and  pay  the  sum  of  five  hundred  dol- 
lars for  each  omission  or  refusal  as  aforesaid,  to  be  recover- 
ed in  an  action  of  debt  by  any  person  interested  in  such 
sale,  and  suing  for  the  said  penalty,  on  account  of  the  party 
or  parties  interested  in  the  prize  vessel  or  property  sold  as 
aforesaid,  in  any  court  having  cognizance  thereof. 

Sec.  5.  That  the  owner  or  owners  of  any  private  armed 
vessel  or  vessels,  or  their  agent  or  agents,  may,  at  any  time 
before  a  libel  shall  be  filed  against  any  captured  vessel  or  her 
cargo,  remove  the  same  from  any  .port  into  which  such  prise 
vessel  or  property  may  be  first  brought,  to  any  other  port 
in  the  Confederate  States,  to  be  designated  at  the  time  of  the 
removal  as  aforesaid,  subject  to  the  same  restrictions  and 
complying  with  the  same  regulations  with  respect  to  the  pay- 
ment of  duties  which  are  provided  by  law  in  relation  to  other 
vessels  arriving  in  port  with  cargoes  subject  to  the  payment 
of  duties:  Provided.  That  before  such  removal  the  said  cap- 
tured property  shall  not  have  been  attached  at  the  suit  of 
any  adverse  claimant,  or  a  claim  against  the  same  have  been 
interposed  in  behalf  of  the  Confederate  States. 

Approved  May  14,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

Recognizing  the  existence  of  War  between  the  United  States 
and  the  Confederate  States ;  and  concerning  Letters  of 
Marque,  Prizes  and  Prize  Goods. 

Whereas,  The  earnest  efforts  made  by  this  Government 
to  establish  friendly  relations  between  the  Government  of 


so 

the  United  States  and  the  Confederate  States,  and  to  settle 
all  question  a  of  disagreement  between  the  two  Governments 
upon  principles  of  right,  justice,  equity  and  good  faith,  hare 
proved  unavailing,  by  reason  of  the  refusal  of  the  Govern- 
ment of  the  United  States  to  hold  any  intercourse  with  tho 
Commissioners  appointed  by  this  Government  for  the  par- 
is  aforesaid,  of  to  listen  t<>  any  proposals  they  had  to 
make  for  the  peaceful  solution  of  all  causes  of  difficulty  be- 
tween the  two  Governments ;  and  whereas  the  President  of 
the  United  States  of  America  has  issu  d  his  proclamation 
making  requisition  upon  the  States  of  the  American  Union 
for  seventy-five  thousand  men  for  the  purpose,  as  therein 
indicated,  of  capturing  forts  and  other  Btrongholds  within 
the  jurisdiction  of  and  belonging  to  the  Confederate  States 
of  America,    and    lias    detailed    naval    armaments    upon   tho 

coasts  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  and  raised, or- 
ganized and  equipped  a  large  military  force  to  execute  tho 
purpose  aforesaid,  and  has  issued  his  other  proclamation  an- 
nouncing his  purpose  to  set  on  Foot  a  blockade  of  the  ports 

of  the  Confederate  States:  and  whereas,  the  State  of  Virgi- 
nia has  seceded  from  the  Federal  Union  and  entered  into  a 
convention  of  alliance  offensive  and  defensive  with  the  Con- 
federate States,  and  has  adopted  the  Provisional  Constitu- 
tion of  the  said  States,  and  the  States  of  Maryland.  North 
Carolina,  Tennessee,  Kentucky,  Arkansas  and  Missouri, 
have  refused,  and  it  is  believed  that  the  State  of  Delaware 
and  the  inhabitants  of  the  territories  of  Arizona  and  New 
Mexico,  and  the  Indian  territory  south  of  Kansas,  will  re- 
fuse to  co-operate  with  the  Government  of  the  United  States 
in  these  acts  of  hostilities  and  wanton  aggression,  which  are 
plainly  intended  to  overawe,  oppress  and  finally  subjugate 
the  people  of  the  Confederate  States:  and  whereas,  by  the 
acts  and  means  aforesaid,  we*  exists  between  the  Confede- 
rate States  and  the  Government  of  the  United  States,  and 
the  States  and  Territories  thereof,  except  the  States  of  .Mary- 
land, North  Carolina,  Tennessee,  Kentucky,  Arkansas.  Mis- 
souri and  Delaware,  and  the  Territories  of  Arizona  and  New 
Mexico,  and  the  Indian  territory  south  of  Kansas:  There- 
fore, 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States  is 
hereby  authorized  to  use  the  whole  land  and  naval  force  of 
the  Confederate  States  to  meet  the  war  thus  commenced,  and 
to  iseue  to  private  armed  vessels  commissions,  or  letters  of 


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marque  and  general  reprisal,  in  such  form  as  lie  shall  think 
proper,  under  the  seal  of  the  Confederate  States,  against  the 
vessels,  goods  and  effects  of  the  Government  of  the  United 
States,  and  of  the  citizens  or  inhabitants  of  the  States  and 
Territories  thereof:  Provided,  however,  That  property  of '  the 
enemy  (unless  it  be  contraband  of  Avar)  laden  on  board  a 
neutral  vessel,  shall  not  be  subject  to  seizure  under  this  act : 
And  provided  further,  That  vessels  of  the  citizens  or  inhabi- 
tants of  the  United  States  now  in  the  ports  of  the  Confede- 
rate States,  except  such  as  have  been  since  the  5th  of  April 
last,  or  may  hereafter  be,  in  the  service  of  the  Government 
of  the  United  States,  shall  be  allowed  thirty  days  after  the 
publication  of  this  act  to  leave  said  ports  and  reach  their 
destination  ;  and  such  vessels  and  their  cargoes,  excepting 
articles  contraband  of  war,  shall  not  be  subject  to  capture 
under  this  act  during  said  period,  unless  they  shall  have  pre- 
viously reached  the  destination  for  which  they  were  bound 
on  leaving  said  ports. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States  shall 
be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  revoke  and 
annul,  at  pleasure,  all  letters  of  marque  and  reprisal  which 
he  may  at  any  time  grant  pursuant  to  this  act. 

Sec  3.  That  all  persons  applying  for  letters  of  marque 
and  reprisal,  pursuant  to  this  act.  shall  state  in  writing  the 
name  and  a  suitable  description  of  the  tonnage  and  force  of 
the  vessel,  and  the  name  and  place  of  residence  of  each 
owner  concerned  therein,  and  the  intended  number  of  the 
crew  ;  which  statement  shall  be  signed  by  the  person  or  per- 
sons making  such  application,  and  filed  with  the  Secretary 
of  State,  or  shall  be  delivered  to  any  other  officer  or  person 
who  shall  be  employed  to  deliver  out  such  commissions,  to 
be  by  him  transmitted  to  the  Secretary  of  State. 

Sec.  4.  That  before  any  commission  or  letters  of  marque 
and  reprisal  shall  be  issued  as  aforesaid,  the  owner  or  owners 
of  the  ship  or  vessel  for  which  the  same  shall  be  requested, 
and  the  commander  thereof  for  the  time  being,  shall  give 
bond  to  the  Confederate  States,  with  at  least  two  responsible 
sureties  not  interested  in  such  vessel,  in  the  penal  sum  of 
five  thousand  dollars,  or  if  such  vessel  be  provided  with 
more  than  one  hundred  and  fifty  men,  then  in  the  penal  sum 
of  ten  thousand  dollars,  with  condition  that  the  owners,  offi- 
cers and  crew  who  shall  be  employed  on  board  such  commis- 
sioned vessel,  shall  and  will  observe  the  laws  of  the  Confede- 
rate States,  and  the  instructions   which  shall  be  given  them 


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according  to  law  for  the  regulation  of  their  conduct,  and 

will  satisfy  all  damages  ami  injuries  which  shall  be  dene  or 
committed  contrary  t<>  the  tenor  thereof,  by  such  vessel  dur- 
ing her  commission,  and  to  deliver  up  the  same  when  revoked 
by  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States. 

Sf.c.  .").  That  all  captures  and  prises  <»|  vessels  and  pro- 
perty shall  be  forfeited  and  shall  accrue  to  the  owners,  offi- 
cers and  crews  of  the  vessels  by  whom  such  captures  and 
prizes  shall  be  made,  and  on  due  condemnation  had  shall  be 
distributed  according  to  any  written  agreement  which  shall 
be  made  between  them;  and  if  there  be  no  such  written 
agreement,  then  one  moiety  to  the  owners  and  the  other 
moiety  to  the  officers  and  crew,  as  nearly  as  may  he  accord- 
ing to  the  rules  prescribed  for  the  distribution  oi  prize  mo- 
ney by  the  laws  of  the  Confederate  States. 

Sec.  G.  That  all  vessels,  goods  and  effects,  the  property 
of  any  citizen  of  the  Confederate  States,  or  of  persons  resi- 
dent within  and  under  the  protection  of  the  Confederate 
States,  or  of  persons  permanently  within  the  Territories  and 
under  the  protection  of  any  foreign  Prince,  Government  or 
State  in  amity  with  the  Confederate  States,  which  shall  have 
been  captured  by  the  United  States,  and  which  shall  he  re- 
captured by  vessels  commissioned  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  re- 
stored to  the  lawful  owners,  upon  payment  by  them  of  a  just 
and  reasonable  salvage,  to  be  determined  by  the  mutual 
agreement  of  the  parties  concerned,  or  by  the  decree'  of  any 
court  having  jurisdiction,  according  to  the  nature  of  each 
case,  agreeably  to  the  provisions  established  by  law.  And 
sucb  salvage  shall  be  distributed  among  the  owners,  officers 
and  crews  of  the  vessels  commissioned  as  aforesaid,  and 
making  sucb. captures,  according  to  any  written  agreement 
which  shall  be  made  between  them  ;  and  in  case  of  no  Buch 
agreement,  then  in  the  same  manner  and  upon  the  princi- 
ples hereinbefore  provided  in  cases  of  capture.  ' 

Sec.  7.  That  before  breaking  bulk  of  any  vessel  which 
shall  be  captured  as  aforesaid,  or  other  disposal  or  conver- 
sion thereof,  or  of  any  articles  which  shall  be  found  on  hoard 
the  same,  such  captured  vessel,  goods  or  effects  shall  be 
brought  into  some  port  of  the  Confederate  States,  or  of  «i 
nation  or  State  in  amity  with  the  Confederate  States,  and 
shall  he  proceeded  against  before  a  competent  tribunal ;  and 
after  condemnation  and  forfeiture  thereof  shall  belong  to  the 
owners,  officers  and  crew  of  the  vessel  capturing  the  same, 
and  be  distributed  as  before  provided ;  and  in  the  case  of  all 


captured  vessels,  goods  and  effects  -which  shall  be  brought 
within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Confederate  States,  the  Dis- 
trict Courts  of  the  Confederate  States  shall  have  exclusive 
original  cognizance  thereof,  as  in  civil  causes  of  admiralty 
and  maritime  jurisdiction ;  and  the  said  courts,  or  the  courts, 
being  courts  of  the  Confederate  States,  into  which  such  cases 
shall  be  removed,  and  in  which  they  shall  be  finally  decided, 
shall'  and  may  decree  restitution  in  whole  or  in  part,  when 
the  capture  shall  have  been  made  without  just  cause.  And 
if  made  without  probable  cause,  may  order  and  decree  dam- 
ages and  costs  to  the  party  injured,  for  which  the  owners  and 
commanders  of  the  vessels  making  such  captures,  and  also 
the  vessels,  shall  be  liable. 

Sec  8.  That  all  persons  found  on  board  any  captured 
vessel,  or  on  board  any  re-captured  vessel,  shall  be  reported 
to  the  Collector  of  the  port  in  the  Confederate  States  in 
which  they  shall  first  arrive,  and  shall  be  delivered  into  the 
custody  of  the  Marshal  of  the  District,  or  some  court  or 
military  officer  of  the  Confederate  States,  or  of  any  State  in 
or  near  such  port,  who  shall  take  charge  of  their  safe  keep- 
ing and  support,  at  the  expense  of  the  Confederate  States. 

Sec  9.  That  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States  is 
hereby  authorized  to  establish  and  order  suitable  instructions 
for  the  better  governing  and  directing  the  conduct  of  the 
vessels  so  commissioned,  their  officers  and  crews,  copies  of 
which  shall  be  delivered  by  the  Collector  of  the  Customs  to 
the  commanders,  when  they  shall  give  bond  as  provided. 

Sec  10.  That  a  bounty  shall  be  paid  by  the  Confederate 
States  of  $20  for  each  person  on  board  any  armed  ship  or 
vessel  belonging  to  the  United  States  at  the  commencement 
of  an  engagement,  which  shall  be  burnt,  sunk  or  destroyed 
by  any  vessel  commissioned  as  aforesaid,  wThich  shall  be  of 
equal  or  inferior  force,  the  same  to  be  divided  as  in  other 
cases  of  prize*money  ;  and  a  bounty  of  $25  shall  be  paid  to 
the  owners,  officers  and  crews  of  the  private  armed  vessels 
commissioned  as  aforesaid,  for  each  and  every  prisoner  by 
them  captured  and  brought  into  port,  and  delivered  to  an 
agent  authorized  to  receive  them,  in  any  port  of  the  Confede- 
rate States  ;  and  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  hereby 
authorized  to  pay  or  cause  to  be  paid  to  the  owners,  officers 
and  crews  of  such  private  armed  vessels  commissioned  as 
aforesaid,  or  their  agent,  the  bounties  herein  provided. 

Sec  11.  That  the  commanding  officer  of  every  vessel  hav- 
ing a  commission  or  letters  of  niarque  and  reprisal,  during 
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the  present  hostilities   between   the   Confederate   States  and 
the  United  States,  shall  keep   B    regular  journal,  containing 
a  true  ami  exact  account  of  his  daily  proceedings  and  trans- 
actions with  such  vessel  and  the  eivw  thereof;    the  pOttB  and 
places  he   shall  put  into  or  cast  anchor  in;  the   time   of  his 
stay  there  and  the  cause    thereof;    the    prises    he    shall    take 
and  the  nature   and   probable    value   thereof;   the  times  and 
places,  -when  and  where  taken,  and  in  what    manner  he  shall 
dispose   of    the    same;    the    ships    or    vessels   he  shall  fall   in 
with;   the  times  and  places  when    and    where   he   shall   meet 
Avith  them,  and  his  observations  and   remarks  thereon  ;   also. 
of  whatever  else  shall  occur  to  him  or  any  of  his  officers  or 
marines,  or  be  discovered  by  examination  or  conference  with 
any  marines  or  passengers  of  or  in  any  other  ships   or  ves- 
sels, or  by  any  other  means  touching   the  fleets,  vessels  and 
forces  of  the  United  States,  their  posts  and  placed  of  station 
and  destination,  strength,  numbers,  intents  and  designs  ;  and 
such  commanding  officer  shall,  immediately  on  his  arrival  in 
any  port  of  the  Confederate  States,  from  or  during  the  con- 
tinuance of  any  voyage  or   cruise,   produce   his  commission 
for  such  vessel,  and  deliver  up  such  journal  so  kept  as  afore- 
said, signed  with  his  proper  name  and  hand-writing,  to  the 
Collector  or  other  chief  officer  of  the  customs   at  or  nearest 
to  such  port;   the  truth  of  which  journal  shall  be  verified  by 
the  oath  of  the  commanding  officer  for  the  time  being.    And 
such  Collector  or  other  chief  officer   of   the  customs   shall. 
immediately  on  the  arrival  of   such   vessel,  order  the  proper 
officer  of  the  customs  to  go  on  board  and  take  an  account  of 
the  officers  and  men,  the   number  and   nature   of   the  guns* 
and  whatever  else  shall  occur  to  him  on  examination  material 
to  be  known  ;  and  no  such  vessel  shall   be   permitted  to  sail 
out  of  port  again  until  such  journal  shall  Ufjve  been  deliver- 
ed up,  and  a  certificate  obtained  under  the  hand  of  such  col- 
lector or  other  chief  officer  of  the  customs  that  she- is  manned 
and  armed  according  to  her  commission  ;   and  upon  delivery 
of  such  certificate,  any  former  certificate  of  a   like  nature, 
which  shall  have  been    obtained  by   the  commander  of  such 
vessel,  shall  be  delivered  up. 

Sec.  12.  That  the  commanders  of  vessels  having  letters  of 
marque  and  reprisal  as  aforesaid,  neglecting  to  keep  a  jour- 
nal as  aforesaid,  or  wilfully  making  fraudulent  entries  there- 
in, or  obliterating  the  record  of  any  material  transaction 
contained  therein,  where  the  interest  of  the  Confederate 
States  is  concerned,  or  refusing  to  produce  and  deliver  such 


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journal,  commission  or  certificate,  pursuant  to  the  preceding 
section  of  this  act,  then  and  in  such  cases  the  commissions  or 
letters  of  marque  and  reprisal  of  such  vessels  shall  be  liable 
to  be  revoked ;  and  such  commanders  respectively  shall  for- 
feit for  every  such  offence  the  sum  of  $1,000,  one  moiety 
thereof  to  the  use  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  the  other 
to  the  informer. 

Sec.  13.  That  the  owners  or  commanders  of  vessels  hav- 
ing letters  of  marque  and  reprisal  as  aforesaid,  who  shall 
violate  any  of  the  acts  of  Congress  for  the  collection  of  the 
revenue  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  for  the  prevention 
of  smuggling,  shall  forfeit  the  commission  or  letters  of 
marque  and  reprisal,  and  they  and  the  vessels  owned  or 
commanded  by  them  shall  be  liable  to  all  the  penalties  and 
forfeitures  attaching  to  merchant  vessels  in  like  cases. 

Sec.  14.  That  on  all  goods,  wares  and  merchandize  cap- 
tured and  made  good  and  lawful  prizes  of  war,  by  any  pri- 
vate armed  ship  having  commission  or  letters  of  marque  and 
reprisal  under  this  act,  and  brought  into  the  Confederate 
States,  there  shall  be  allowed  a  deduction  of  33  1-3  per 
cent,  on  the  amount  of  duties  imposed  by  law. 

Sec.  15.  That  five  per  centum  on  the  net  amount  (after 
deducting  all  charges  and  expenditures)  of  the  prize  money 
arising  from  captured  vessels  and  cargoes,  and  on  the  net 
amount  of  the  salvage  of  vessels  and  cargoes  re-captured 
by  private  armed  vessels  of  the  Confederate  States,  shall  be 
secured  and  paid  over  to  the  Collector  or  other  chief  officer 
of  the  customs,  at  the  port  or  place  in  the  Confederate  States 
at  which  such  captured  or  re-captured  vessels  may  arrive, 
or  to  the  Consul  or  other  public  agent  of  the  Confederate 
States  residing  at  the  port  or  place  not  within  the  Confede- 
rate States  at  which  such  captured  or  re-captured  vessel 
may  arrive.  And  the  moneys  arising  therefrom  shall  be 
held  and  are  hereby  pledged  by  the  Government  of  the  Con- 
federate States  as  a  fund  for  the  support  and  maintenance 
of  the  widows  and  orphans  of  such  persons  as  may  be  slain, 
and  for  the  support  and  maintenance  of  such  persons  as 
may  be  wounded  and  disabled  on  board  of  the  private  armed 
vessels  commissioned  as  aforesaid,  in  any  engagement  with 
the  enemy,  to  be  assigned  and  distributed  in  such  manner 
as  shall  hereafter  be  provided  by  law. 

Approved  May  6,  1861. 


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AN  ACT 

To  increase  the  Military  establishment  of  the  Confederate 
States,  and  to  amend  the  "  Act  for  the  establishment  and 
organization  of  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States  of 
America." 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confab  rate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  the  President  shall  be  authorized  to  raise 
and  organize,  in  addition  to  the  present  military  establish- 
ment, one  regiment  of  cavalry  and  two  regiments  of  infan- 
try, -whenever  in  his  judgment  the  public  service  may  re- 
quire such  an  increase,  to  be  organized  in  accordance  with 
existing  laws  for  the  organization  of  cavalry  and  infantry 
regiments,  and  to  be  entitled  to  the  same  pay  and  allowances 
provided  for  the  same  respectively. 

Sec  2.  That  the  five  general  officers  provided  by  existing 
laws  for  the  Confederate  States,  shall  have  the  rank  and  de- 
nomination of  "General,"  instead  of  "Brigadier  General," 
which  shall  be  the  highest  military  grade  known  to  the  Con- 
federate States.  They  shall  be  assigned  to  such  commands 
and  duties  as  the  President  may  specially  direct,  and  shall 
be  entitled  to  the  same  pay  and  allowances  as  are  provided 
for  Brigadier  Generals,  and  to  two  Aids-de-camp,  to  be  se- 
lected as  now  provided  by  law.  Appointments  to  the  rank 
of  General,  after  the  Army  is  organized,  shall  be  made  by 
selection  from  the  Army. 

Sec.  3.  That  the  President  be  authorized,  whenever  in 
his  judgment  the  public  service  may  require  the  increase, 
to  add  to  the  corps  of  engineers  one  Lieutenant  Colonel, 
who  shall  receive  the  pay  and  allowances  of  a  Lieutenant 
Colonel  of  cavalry,  and  as  many  Captains,  not  exceeding 
five,  as  may  be  necessary. 

Sec  4.  That  there  be  added  to  the  Quartermaster  Gene- 
ral's Department  one  Assistant  Quartermaster  General,  with 
the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel,  and  two  Quartermasters, 
with  the  rank  of  Major;  and  to  the  Commissary  General's 
Department,  one  Assistant  Commissary,  with  the>rank  of 
Major,  and  one  Assistant  Commissary,  with  the  rank  of 
Captain  ;  and  to  the  Medical  Department,  six  Surgeons  and 
fourteen  Assistant  Surgeons. 

Sec  5.  That  the  President  be  authorized  to  appoint  as 
many  military  store-keepers,  with  the  pay  and  allowances 
of  a  First  Lieutenant  of  infantry,,  as  the  safe-keeping  of 


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the  public  property  may  require,  not  to  exceed  in  all  six 
store-keepers. 

Sec.  6.  That  there  be  added  to  the  military  establishment 
one  Quartermaster  Sergeant  for  each  regiment  of  cavalry 
and  infantry,  and  one  Ordnance  Sergeant  for  each  military 
post,  each  to  receive  the  pay  and  allowances  of  a  Sergeant 
Major,  according  to  existing  laws. 

Sec.  7.  That  there  may  be  enlisted  for  the  Medical  De- 
partment of  the  Army,  for  the  term  already  provided  by  law 
for  other  enlisted  men,  as  many  hospital  stewards  as  the 
service  may  require,  to  be  determined  by  the  Secretary  of 
War,  under  such  regulations  as  he  may  prescribe,  and  who 
shall  receive  the  pay   and   allowances  of  a  Sergeant  Major. 

Sec.  8.  That  until  a  military  school  shall  be  established 
for  the  elementary  instruction  of  officers  for  the  Army,  the 
President  shall  be  authorized  to  appoint  cadets  from  the 
several  States,  in  number  proportioned  to  their  representa- 
tion in  the  House  of  Representatives,  and  ten  in  addition, 
to  be  selected  by  him  at  large  from  the  Confederate  States, 
who  shall  be  attached  to  companies  in  service  in  any  branch 
of  the  Army,  as  supernumerary  officers,  with  the  rank  of  ca- 
det, who  shall  receive  the  monthly  pay  of  forty  dollars,  and 
be  competent  for  promotion  at  such  time  and  under  such  re- 
gulations as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  President,  or  hereaf- 
ter established  by  law. 

Sec  9.  That  the  President  be  authorized  to  assign  offi- 
cers of  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States  to  staff  duty 
with  volunteers  or  provisional  troops,  and  to  confer  upon 
them,  whilst  so  employed,  the  rank  corresponding  to  the 
staff  duties  they  are  to  perform. 

Sec.  10.  There  shall  be  allowed  and  paid  to  every  able- 
bodied  man  who  shall  be  duly  enlisted  to  serve  in  the  Army 
of  the  Confederate  States,  a  bounty  of  ten  dollars  ;  but  the 
paj'ment  of  five  dollars  of  the  said  bounty  shall  be  deferred 
until  the  recruit  shall  have  been  mustered  into  the  regiment 
in  which  he  is  to  serve. 

Sec.  11.  That  the  provision  of  the  third  section  of  the 
act  of  tne  Congress  of  the  United  States,  making  appro- 
priations for  the  legislative,  executive  and  judicial  expenses 
of  the  Government  for  the  year  ending  the  thirtieth  day  of 
June,  A.  D.  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  approved  June 
twenty-third,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty,  which  declares 
that  no  arms  nor  military  supplies  whatever,  which  are  of  a 
patented  invention,  shall  be  purchased,  nor  the  right  of  using 


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or  applying  any  patented  invention,  Dnless  die  Bame  shall 
be  authorized  by  law,  and  the  appropriation  therefor  expli- 
citly set  forth,  that  it  is  for  such   patented    invention,  (if  of 

force  within  the  Confederate  States.)  shall  be  suspended  in 

its  operation  for  and  during  the  existing  war. 
Approved  May  16,  1861.  4 


AN  ACT 

To  amend  an  Act  entitled  ••  An  Act  to  provide  for  the  ap- 
pointment of  Chaplains  to  the  Army,"  approved  May  S, 
1861. 

Section  1.  Tlie  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  so  much  of  the  second  section  of  the 
above  recited  act  as  fixes  the  pay  of  Chaplains  in  the  Army 
at  eighty-five  dollars  he  repealed,  and  that  the  pay' of  said 
Chaplains  be  fifty  dollars  per  month. 

Approved  May  16,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

To  authorize  the  President  to  continue  the  Appointments 
made  by  him  in  the  Military  and  Naval  Service  during  the 
recess  of  Congress  or  the  present  session*  and  to  submit 
them  to  Congress  at  its  next  session. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  the  President  be  authorized  to  continue 
the  appointments  made  by  him  in  the  military  and  naval  ser- 
vice during  the  recess  of  Congress  or  the  present  session, 
and  to  submit  them  to  Congress  at  its  next  session. 

Approved,  May  16,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

To  provide  an  additional  Company  of  Sappers  and  Bom- 
bardiers for  the  Army. 

Section  1.   The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  vf  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  there  be  added  to  the  military  establish- 


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ment  of  the  Confederate  States  one  company  of  Sappers  and 
Bombardiers,  to  consist  of  one  Captain,  two  First  Lieuten- 
ants, one  Second  Lieutenant,  ten  Sergeants  or  Master-work- 
men, ten  Corporals  or  Overseers,  two  musicians,  thirty-nine 
privates  of  the  first  class,  and  thirty-nine  privates  of  the 
second  class,  who  shall  be  instructed  in  and  perform  all  the 
duties  of  sappers  and  bombardiers,  and  shall,  moreover,  un- 
der the  orders  of  the  chief  engineer,  be  liable  to  serve  by 
detachments  in  overseeing  and  aiding  laborers  upon  forti- 
fications or  other  works  under  the  engineer  department,  and 
in  supervising  finished  fortifications,  as  fort-keepers,  pre- 
venting injury  and  making  repairs. 

Sec.  2.  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Colonel  of  the 
Engineer  Corps,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Secretary  of 
War,  to  prescribe  the  number,  quantity,  form,  dimensions, 
etc.,  of  the  aecessary  vehicles,  arms,  pontons,  tools,  imple- 
ments, and  other  supplies  for  the  service  of  said  company 
as  a  body  of  sappers  and  bombardiers. 

Sec.  3.  That  the  monthly  pay  of  the  Captain  of  said 
company  shall  be  one  hundred  and  forty  dollars  ;  of  each 
First  Lieutenant,  one  hundred  dollars;  of  the  Second  Lieu- 
tenant, ninety  dollars  ;  of  the  Sergeants,  thirty-four  dol- 
lars ;  of  the  first  class  privates,  seventeen  dollars  ;  and  of 
the  second  class  privates,  thirteen  dollars.  And  th£  said 
commissioned  officers  shall  be  entitled  to  the  same  allowances 
as  all  other  commissioned  officers  of  the  Army,  and  the 
same  right  to  draw  forage  for  horses  as  is  accorded  to  offi- 
cers of  like  rank  in  the  Engineer  Corps  ;  and  the  enlisted 
men  shall  receive  the  same  rations  and  allowances  as  are 
granted  to  all  other  enlisted  men  in  the  Army. 

Approved  May  17,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

Making  Appropriations  in  addition  to  those  already  made 
for  the  Military  Service  of  the  Confederate  States  of 
America,  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  the  eighteenth  day  of 
February,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  there  be  appropriated  for  the  pay  of  the 
officers  and  privates  of  one  hundred  regiments  of  infantry, 
and  for  quartermaster's  supplies  of  all  kinds  for  the  same, 


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*nd  transportation,  including  horses,  wagons,  harness,  am- 
bulances and  other  necessary  expenses,  for  the  fiscal  year 
ending  the  eighteenth  of  February,  one  thousand  eight  hun- 
dred and  sixty-two,  twenty-seven  millions  nine  hundred  and 
thirty-two  thousand  four  hundred  and  ninty-three  dollars 
and  twelve  cents. 

Sec.  2.  That  there  be  appropriated  for  the  pay.  quarter- 
master's supplies  of  all  kinds,  transportation  and  other  ne- 
cessary expenses  for  one  regiment  of  legionary  formation, 
composed  of  one  company  of  artillery,  four  companies  of 
cavalry,  and  six  companies  of  voltigc  urs,  five  hundred  and 
fifty  thousand  four  hundred  and  eighty-five  dollars. 

Sec  3.  That  there  be  appropriated  for  the  purchase  of 
subsistence  stores  and  commissary  property  for  one  hundred 
thousand  troops,  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  the  eighteenth  of 
February,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two.  five 
millions  four  bundled  and  sixty-four  thousand  two  hundred 
and  fifty-eight  dollars  and  eighty  cents. 

Sec  4.  That  there  be  appropriated  for  the  ordnance  ser- 
vice, for  the  fiscal  year  ending  the  eighteenth  of  February, 
one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two — for  the  preser- 
vation of  public  buildings,  quarters,  barracks,  etc.,  at  the 
arsenals,  armories,  and  depots ;  for  the  repairs  and  preser- 
vation of  ordnance  stores  ;  for  the  pay  of  clerks,  draughts- 
men, colorers,  superintendents,  overseers,  etc.  ;  for  the  pur- 
chase of  horses,  mules,  forage,  stationery,  and  contingen- 
cies of  ordnance  service  ;  for  the  purchase  of  heavy  ord- 
nance and  carriages,  with  shot  and  shell  for  the  same ;  for 
sixteen  field  batteries  of  six  pieces  each,  with  harness,  im- 
plements and  ammunition  ;  for  fifty  thousand  stand  of  small 
arms  ;  for  five  thousand  pistols  and  holsters  ;  for  sabres, 
swords,  carbines  and  pistols  ;  for  five  thousand  sets  of  caval- 
ry equipments;  for  five  thousand  sets  of  cavalry  accoutre- 
ments; for  one  hundred  thousand  sets  infantry  accoutre- 
ments, knapsacks,  haversacks  and  canteens;  for  two  and 
one-half  million  pounds  powder;  for  materials  for  the 
same  ;  for  lead,  copper,  and  materials  for  percussion  caps 
and  for  friction  tubes ;  for  additional  shops  and  store- 
houses at  Mount  Vernon  Arsenal,  Alabama,  and  Augusta 
Arsenal,  Georgia ;  for  machinery,  steam  engine  and  tools ; 
for  cap  machine ;  for  bullet  machine;  for  repairs  of  build- 
ings and  machines  at  Harper's  Ferry — four  millions  four 
hundred  and  forty  thousand  dollars. 

Sec  5.  That  there  be  appropriated  for  medical  and  hos- 


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pital  supplies,  for  the  year  ending  eighteenth  February,  one 
thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two,  the  sum  of  three 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars. 

Sec.  6.  That  there  be  appropriated  for  the  contingent  ser- 
vice of  the  War  Department,  for  the  year  ending  the  eigh- 
teenth of  February,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty- 
two,  the  sum  of  three  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

Sec.  7.  That  there  be  appropriated  for  contingent  ex- 
penses of  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  Department, 
including  office  furniture,  stationery,  printed  blanks  for  the 
use  of  the  army,  record  books,  postage,  telegraphic  de- 
spatches, &c,  for  the  year  ending  the  eighteenth  February, 
one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two,  the  sum  of  eight 
thousand  dollars. 

Sec  8.  That  there  be  appropriated  for  the  pay  of  sur- 
geons, assistant  surgeons,  and  chaplains,  for  the  year  ending 
the  eighteenth  day  of  February,  one  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  sixty-two,  the  sum  of  three  hundred  and  twenty-nine 
thousand  nine  hundred  and  one  dollars. 

Approved  May  21,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

Concerning  the  transportation  of  Soldiers  and  allowance  for 
Clothing  of  Volunteers,  and  amendatory  of  the  Act  for 
the  establishment  and  organization  of  the  Army  of  the 
Confederate  States. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  When  transportation  cannot  be  furnished  in 
kind,  the  discharged  soldier  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  ten 
cents  per  mile  in  lieu  of  all  traveling  pay,  subsistence,  for- 
age, and  undrawn  clothing,  from  the  place  of  discharge  to 
the  place  of  his  enlistment  or  enrollment,  estimating  the  dis- 
tance by  the  shortest  mail  route,  and  if  there  is  no  mail 
route,  by  the  shortest  practicable  route.  The  foregoing  to 
apply  to  all  officers,  non-commissioned  officers,  musicians, 
artificers,  farriers,  blacksmiths,  and  privates  of  volunteers, 
when  disbanded,  discharged,  or  mustered  out  of  service  of 
the  Confederate  States ;  and  it  shall  also  apply  to  all  volun- 
teer troops,  as  above  designated,  when  traveling  from  the 
place  of  enrollment  to  the  place  of  general  rendezvous  or 
point  where  mustered  into  service :  Provided,  That  nothing 
herein  contained  shall  be   so  construed  as  to  deprive  the 


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mounted  volunteers  of  the  allowance  of  forty  cents  a  day  for 
the  use  and  risk  of  his  horse,  which  allowance  is  made  from 
the  date  of  his  enrollment  to  the  date  of  his  discharge,  and 
also  for  every  twenty  miles  travel  from  the  place  of  his  dis- 
charge to  the  place  of  his  enrollment. 

Sec  ~.  Thai   the  fourth  section  of  the  act  of  March  6, 
1861,  "To  provide  for   the   public  defence,''  be   amended  as 

follows,  viz:  There  shall  be  allowed  to  each  volunteer,  to  be 

paid  to  him  <>u  the  fust  muster  and  pay  rolls  after  being  re- 
ceived and  mustered  into  the  service  of  the  Confederate 
States,  the  sum  of  twenty-one  dollars,  in  lieu  of  clothing  for 
six  months;  and  thereafter  the  same  allowance  in  money  at 
every  subsequent  period  of  service  for  six  months  in  lieu  of 
clothing:  Provided.  That  the  price  of  all  clothing  in  kind 
received  by  said  volunteers  from  the  Confederate  States 
Government  shall  he  deducted  first  from  the  money  thus  al- 
lowed; and  if  that  sum  he  not  sufficient,  the  balance  shall 
be  charged  for  stoppage  on  the  muster  and  payrolls;  and 
that  all  accounts  arising  from  contracts,  agreements,  or  ar- 
rangements for  furnishing  clothing  to  volunteers,  to  he  duly 
certified  by  the  company  commander,  shall  he  paid  out  of  the 
said  semi-annual  allowance  of  money. 

Sec.  3.  That  the  twenty-first  section  of  the  act  for  the 
organization  of  the  army  of  the  Confederate  States  be  so 
amendedas  to  allow  to  Aids-de^Camp  and  to  Adjutants  forage 
for  the  same  number  of  horses  as  allowed  to  officers  of  the 
same  grade  in  the  mounted  service. 

Approved,  May  21,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

To  be  entitled  An  Act  to  amend  "  An  Act  to  raise  an  addi- 
tional Military  Force  to  serve  during  the  War." 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact.  That  so  much  of  the  second  section  of  the  act 
entitled  "  An  act  to  raise  an  additional  military  force  to  serve 
during  the  war,"  passed  May  eighth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-one,  be  so  amended  as  to  authorize  the  President,  OB 
the  application  of  any  commanding  officer  of  a  regiment  or 
battalion  authorized  by  said  act,  to  assign  a  subaltern  of  the 
line  of  the  army  to  the  duties  of  adjutant  of  said  regiment  or 
battalion. 

Approved,  May  21,  1861. 


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AN  ACT 

To  authorize  the  President  to  confer  temporary  rank  and 
command,  for  service  with  volunteer  troops,  on  officers  of 
the  Confederate  Army. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate.  States  of  Ame- 
rica do  enact,  That  the  President  shall  be  authorized  to  con- 
fer temporary  rank  and  command,  for  service  with  volunteer 
troops,  on  officers  of  the  Confederate  army;  the  same  to  be 
held  without  prejudice  to  their  positions  in  said  army,  and 
to  have  effect  only  to  the  extent  and  according  to  the  assign- 
ment made  in  general  order. 

Approved,  May  21,   1861. 


AN  ACT 

To  provide  for  the  Incidental  Expenses  of  the  Public  Service 
within  the  Indian  tribes. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  do  enact,  That  the 
sum  of  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  be,  and  the  same  is 
hereby,  appropriated,  out  of  any  money  in  the  Treasury  not 
otherwise  appropriated,  to  meet  the  incidental  expenses  of 
the  public  service  within  the  Indian  tribes,  for  the  year  end- 
ing February  eighteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two. 
But  a  particular  and  specific  account  of  the  expenditures 
under  this  act  shall  be  made  and  reported  to  Congress  at  its 
next  session  after  the  expiration  of  the  period  herein  named. 

Approved,  May  21,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

To  amend  an  act  entitled  "  An  Act  recognizing  the  existence 
of  war  between  the  United  States  and  the  Confederate 
States,  and  concerning  Letters  of  Marque,  Prizes  and 
Prize  Goods,  approved  May  6th,  one  thousand  eight  hun- 
dred and  sixty-one. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  do  enact, 
Tli at  the  tenth  section  of  the  above  entitled  act  be  so  amended 
that,  in  addition  to  the  bounty  therein  mentioned,  the  go- 
vernment of  the  Confederate  States  will  pay  to  the  cruiser 
or  cruisers  of  any  private  armed  vessel  commissioned  under 


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said  act,  twenty  per  centum  on  the  value  of  each  and  every 
Vessel  of  war  belonging  to  the  enemy,  that  may  be  sunk  or 
destroyed  by  such  private  armed  vessel  or  vessels,  the  value 
of  the  armament  to  be  included  in  the  estimate.  The  valua- 
tion to  be  made  by  a  board  ef  naval  officers  appointed,  and 
their  award  to  be  approved  by  the  President,  and  the  amount 
found  to  be  due  to  be  payable  in  eight  percent,  bonds  of  the 
Confederate  States. 

Sfx.  2.  That  if  any.person  who  may  have  invented  or 
may  hereafter  invent  any  new  kind  of  armed  vessel,  or  float- 
ing battery,  or  defence,  shall  deposit  a  plan  of  the  same,  ac- 
companied by  suitable  explanations  or  specifications,  in  the 
navy  department,  together  with  an  affidavit  setting  forth  that 
he  is  the  inventor  thereof,  such  deposit  and  affidavit  (unless 
the  facts  set  forth  therein  shall  be  disproved)  shall  entitle 
such  inventor  or  his  assigns  to  the  sole  and  exclusive  enjoy- 
ment of  the  rights  and  privileges  conferred  by  this  act,  re- 
serving, however,  to  the  government,  in  all  cases,  the  right 
of  using  such  invention. 

Approved  May  21,  1861. 


AN  ACT 

To  provide  for  the  pay  of  additional  officers,  non-commis- 
sioned officers,  musicians  and  privates  of  the  Marine 
Corps,  to  constitute  a  Regiment,  and  for  the  additional 
clothing  and  subsistence  of  the  non-commissioned  officers, 
musicians  and  privates,  for  the  year  ending  February  the 
eighteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact. 
That  the  sum  of  ninety-five  thousand  two  hundred  and  forty 
dollars  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  appropriated  out  of  any 
money  in  the  treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated,  for  the 
pay  of  additional  officers,  musicians  and  privates  of  the  ma- 
rine corps,  and  subsistence  for  the  same  i or  ami  during  the 
year  ending  February  the  eighteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-two,  said  sum  to  be  appropriated  as  follows  :  One  Colo- 
nel, (for  nine  months,)  two  thousand  dollars ;  Lieutenant 
Colonel,  (for  nine  months.)  eighteen  hundred  dollars;  Quar- 
termaster, (additional.)  five  hundred  dollars;  Paymaster, 
(additional,)  five  hundred  dollars;  Adjutant,  (additional,) 
five  hundred  dollars ;  four  Captains,  five  thousand  two  hun- 
dred dollars ;    four  First  Lieutenants,  three  thousand  six 


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hundred  dollars  ;  fourteen  Second  Lieutenants,  ten  thousand 
and  eighty  dollars ;  additional  non-commissioned  officers  and 
musicians,  four  thousand  eight  hundred  dollars ;  two  hun- 
dred and  forty  additional  privates  at  eleven  dollars  per  month, 
twenty-three  thousand  seven  hundred  and  sixty  dollars ;  ad- 
ditional clothing  for  non-commissioned  officers,  musicians 
and  privates,  fifteen  thousand  dollars ;  additional  rations  for 
non-commissioned  officers,  musicians  and  privates,  sixty-six 
thousand  rations  at  sixteen  thousand  five  hundred  dollars ; 
additional  expenses  of  recruiting,  transportation  of  officers 
and  men,  five  thousand  dollars ;  pay  of  armorers  and  pur- 
chase of  small  arms,  ordnance  stores,  accoutrements,  flags, 
&c,  four  thousand  dollars;  contingencies,  including  freight, 
cartage,  &c,  two  thousand  dollars. 
Approved  May  21,  l£6l. 


AN  ACT 

To  provide  for  the  cession,  on  the  part  of  the  State  of  Ar- 
kansas, of  the  Arsenal  at  Little  Rock,  and  of  Fort  Smith 
at  the  city  of  Fort  Smith,  in  the  State  of  Arkansas,  to 
the  Confederate  States  of  America,  and  the  acceptance  of 
the  same  by  the  said  Confederate  States. 

Whereas,  By  ordinance  of  the  Convention  of  the  State 
of  Arkansas,  passed  the  11th  day  of  May,  1861,  herewith 
submitted,  authority  was  conferred  upon  the  delegation  of 
the  State  of  Arkansas  to  cede  to  the  Confederate  States  the 
arsenal  at  Little  Rock,  and  Fort  Smith  at  the  city  of  Fort 
Smith,  in  the  State  of  Arkansas,  and  the  grounds,  buildings 
and  appurtenances  attached  to  each,  in  accordance  with  the 
terms  of    said  ordinance,  Therefore 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  cession  as  hereinbefore  recited  is  hereby  accepted, 
and  it  is  now  made  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  of  War  to  ac- 
cept a  deed  of  cession  of  the  said  arsenal  and  other  property 
to  be  executed  by  the  said  delegation,  and  to  take  charge  of 
and  hold  the  same  in  the  name  of  the  government  of  the 
Confederate  States  of  America. 

Approved  May  21,  1861. 


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